When the little girl in front of him announced her name, Jerome Bonaparte immediately recalled the "background" of this girl.
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, attracted Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon) to become one of his mistresses with her stunning appearance and graceful figure. Thanks to her "assistance," Cavour was able to maintain regular contact with the Tuileries Palace to formulate strategies.
One could say she was a "truly" female diplomat. However, historically, the first meeting with her cousin should have been four years later, in 1856, during the Crimean War, when she seemed to have been only 18 years old.
By that calculation, she was less than 14 years old now.
According to Jerome Bonaparte's past life, girls of this age were still in middle school. Yet this poor child willingly acted as a catalyst for the unification of Italy at an age that should have been innocent and playful, which was indeed quite saddening.
