The Women Bonapartes, Vol. 2 - H Noel Williams

Excerpt from The Women Bonapartes, Vol. 2: The Mother and Three Sisters of Napoleon I
The new princess, as may be supposed, had no reason to complain of the reception which was accorded her, both by the Papal Court and by society. On the day of her arrival, Cardinal Consalvi, the Secretary of State, the Dowager Princess Borghese, and all her husband's relatives residing in Rome called upon her, and over whelmed her with compliments and attentions. A few days later, she had an audience of Pius VII, who accorded her the'unusual honour of being received in his own apartments, instead of in the gardens of the Vatican, where ladies of high rank were usually presented to him; and Consalvi wrote to the Nuncio in Paris that his Holiness had been pleased with her beyond all conception, and the princess equally so with the Pope, and that the latter had made her a present of a magnificent Chaplet and a superb cameo. The next few days were devoted to receiving, at the Palazzo Borghese, the Roman nobility, the members of the Sacred College, and the Diplo matic Corps, and a round of sumptuous dinners and magnificent fetes completed the princess's introduction to her new life.
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