Anti-abortion princess explains her friendship with Justice Alito after he discloses $900 gift
Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, pictured here at an event in Germany in July, has said she first met U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at a Catholic conference while summering in Rome. (Photo by Armin Weigel/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
A German princess has said she first met U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at a Catholic conference while summering in Rome.
Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, whose primary home is a 500-room palace, told the New York Times that she was introduced to Alito by a priest who is a mutual acquaintance. She couldn’t recall the exact date, but the New York Times said Alito was in Rome for a 2018 event sponsored by a law school.
Princess Gloria said she immediately liked Alito and his “very fun, bubbly” wife, so she invited them to a music festival in which she opens her palace to guests.
“I met him as a Catholic, and I realized that he’s a judge who is pro-life,” Princess Gloria told the New York Times. That was a great thing, she said, “because very few people I know are pro-life.”
The Alitos stayed in the palace when they attended the music festival in 2023; the accommodation does not have to be disclosed. The festival included a performance of “The Magic Flute” and a concert by a Michael Jackson tribune band. Princess Gloria also obtained tickets for the Alitos to attend a music festival celebrating the work of German composer Richard Wagner.
Alito valued the gift of concert tickets at $900.
Princess Gloria was once dubbed “Princess TNT” for being a “wild version” of Princess Diana of Wales, a member of the British royal family, according to the New York Times. In her younger days, she sported a multicolored mohawk and rode motorcycles. She became more religious after her husband died in 1990.
The 64-year-old princess is now “an anti-abortion and anti-immigration provocateur” with “ties to the European far right,” the New York Times said.
Princess Gloria toured the Supreme Court in 2019 and posed with Alito and Justice Brett Kavanaugh. With her on the tour were the president of a nonprofit that opposes the legalization of same-sex marriage and a “right-wing German cardinal,” according to the New York Times.
She said she isn’t political, however.
“The only thing that I care about in politics is that somebody is fighting abortion and helping reproduction rates go up,” she told the New York Times. “I think that killing our own offspring and reducing our reproduction rates, eventually, we will kill our own kind.”
Hat tip to How Appealing.
