Galli Zugaro family

The Galli Zugaro family is a baronial family whose ancestral seat was originally Popoli, Abruzzo.
The family gained notability through Baron Enzo Galli Zugaro (1898-1986) , the son of Domenico Galli Zugaro and Paola Sizzo de Noris, Countess of the Holy Roman Empire. Enzo attended the "Nobile Collegio Mondragone", a private college for young aristocrats which was based in Villa Mondragone. Enzo joined the Royal Italian Army and fought in both World Wars. In World War I he was on the Italian Front as a private. During the interwar period he was stationed in Italian Eritrea, Italian Ethiopia, and Italian Libya. In World War II he was promoted to "Tenente Colonnello d'Artiglieria" (Lieutenant Artillery Colonel) and was involved in the . According to a memoir from his wife, he wanted to volunteer and join the Falange in the Spanish Civil War, but she forbade him from leaving.
After World War II, Enzo became general secretary of King Umberto II until his retirement. He frequently travelled between Cascais, where Umberto II lived out his exile, and Rome, to carry out duties related to the royal cause.
In 1926, Enzo married Princess Fabiola Massimo, daughter of Fabrizio Massimo, Prince of Roviano, and Infanta Beatriz de Borbón y Borbò-Parma, Duchess of Antico-Corrado and daughter of Infante Carlos, Duke of Madrid, carlist pretender to the Spanish throne and legitimist pretender to the French throne. Enzo also held the titles of Gentiluomo di Palazzo della Regina d’Italia (Gentleman of the Palace of the Queen of Italy) , Commendatore degli Ordini dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro e della Corona d’Italia (Knight Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus), and was awarded with 3 Croci di Guerra dal Valore Militare (Military Cross of Valor).
Enzo and Fabiola had four sons: and Emilio Galli Zugaro, who served as the Head of Communications at Allianz from 1992 until 2015. He is currently an author and scholar at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, teaching Communicative Leadership at the Faculty of Business Administration as well as holding courses at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin.

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