Ballo del Giglio - Florence Italy
A couple more from Caroline's visit to the Vasari Corridor, then she attenaded a ball: FLORENCE, ITALY - OCTOBER 15: Germogli, Matteo Renzi, Mayor of Florence, and Princess Caroline of Hannover attend the Lily Ball (Ballo del Giglio) on October 15, 2010 in Florence, Italy. (Photo by Germogli via Getty Images)
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A fabulous evening last night in the Palazzo Vecchio to the first "Dance of the Giglio": the Salone was filled with sumptuous tables, red roses and white lilies to host the charity gala organized by the Consulate of the Principality of Monaco Florence, host honor of Princess Caroline of Hanover. After being received by the mayor Matteo Renzi, who was accompanied by his wife Agnes, Princess has signed the record of honor and attended the dinner with 350 selected guests, representing the institutions, entrepreneurship, fashion and aristocracy Florence, among them the Ambassador of Monaco to Italy Philippe Blanche, the superintendent Cristina Acidini, the chief Paolo Padoin, the Chief Zonno Francis, the coach Cesare Prandelli's national soccer team, the designer Ermanno Scervino, Corrado Fratini, Alessandro Bastagli , Marisa Conti Riffeser, Carla Braccialini, Gabriele Poli, Girolamo Guicciardini Strozzi. The evening continued with the lottery and the music of Paolo Belli.
Half of the proceeds of the evening, for the organization of which the City did not claim any cost, will be used to set up a charity fund for the association Amade Italy (World Association of Friends of the Child), which deals with the protection of the rights children and is chaired by Princess Caroline and the other half will go instead to fund the restoration of the statue of Hermes, one of four sculptures from the Roman side of the head placed in the niches of the Salone dei Cinquecento.