HE BREEDS mastiffs, has a keen interest in nude photography and cultivates an impressive moustache.
Were it not for a quirk of history, Uberto Omar Gasche, an eccentric Italian aristocrat, would be the future King rather than Prince Charles.
Had the Act of Settlement not banned monarchs from marrying Catholics and enshrined male primogeniture — the law that boys leapfrog their older sisters to the throne — Signor Gasche would be the heir to the throne, The Times and Burke’s Peerage have discovered. Giant wrinkled mastiffs would pad around the gardens of Buckingham Palace rather than corgis and Prince William would be usurped in the public’s affections by a beautiful 18-year-old Italian schoolgirl, Uberto’s daughter Maria-Christina.
Campaigners are seeking to abolish the controversial Act, which