- Giorgio Carbone
, 30 January 2006]
In the early 1960s Carbone, the head of the local flower-growers co-operative, began promoting the idea that Seborga retained its historic independence as a principality. [ [http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy_regions/liguria_emilia_romagna/2006/general/prince-of-seborga-fights-on-for-362-subjects/ "Prince of Seborga fights on for 362 subjects"] , Italy Magazine, 15 June 2006] By 1963 the people of Seborga were convinced of these arguments and elected Carbone as their Head of State. Henceforth he was to be known as Giorgio I, Prince of Seborga. Carbone is known locally as 'Sua Tremendita' or 'Your Tremendousness'.
He made a rare TV appearance in the 2005
BBC programme "How to Start Your Own Country " Episode 3 "For King and Country".In January 2006 Carbone announced that he would abdicate on reaching the age of 70, apparently as a result of a row over rebuilding the village centre, but he failed to follow through on his promise. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article718377.ece "Wanted: prince to rule village"] , Richard Owen, The Times, 24 January 2006] Even so, this decision was the subject of a feature on the
BBC World Service radio programme "World Today" on25 January 2006. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/worldtoday/news/story/2006/01/060116_wtselect_wk3.shtml "The best of the World Today"] , BBC, 16 January 2006]In June 2006 a power struggle arose when a woman calling herself "
Princess Yasmine von Hohenstaufen Anjou Plantagenet ", who claims to be the rightful heir to the throne of Seborga, wrote to Italy'spresident offering to return the principality to the state. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/13/wsebo13.xml "Battle rages for His Tremendousness's throne"] , Malcolm Moore, Daily Telegraph, 13 June 2006]References
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