Bartolomeo Bergami Bergami

His physical beauty attracts all eyes.

This man is called Pergami.

He belongs to Milan and has entered the princess's service.

The princess," he significantly adds, "is shunned by all the English people of rank.

Her behavior has created the most marked scandal." Such was the man with whose life that of the Princess of Wales was to be so intimately and disastrously linked, and whose relations with her were to be displayed to a shocked world but a few years later.

It was indeed an evil fate that brought this superb Apollo of the crafty brain and the consciousness ambition into the life of the princess at the high tide of her revolt against the world and its conventions.

When Caroline and her retinue set out from Milan for Tuscany, it was in the wake of Pergami, who had ridden ahead to discharge his duties as avant courier.

But before Rome was reached, his intimacy and familiarity with his mistress were already the subject of whispered comments and shrugged shoulders.