[citation needed] During the Nazi occupation of Rome after the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces, Princess Pallavicini supported Italian Royalist partisans and was later awarded bronze medal of military valor for doing so.
[1] Starting from 1977, Princess Elvina Pallavicini led a group of Black Nobility that provided support for Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
[2] She was also actively involved in politics, in particular, supporting the policies of the US Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Her funeral in the basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina was attended by numerous representatives of Italian government as well as nobility.
[citation needed][4] The Prince was a military pilot in the Regia Aeronautica and became Missing in action on 1 August 1940 after an air fight over the Mediterranean (he was officially declared dead by an Italian court ten years later, in 1950).