When Giulia Granger met her husband, Giuseppe Bellini in 1969 at the University of Rome she was twenty-one years old, a graduate student and a devout Catholic. They married immediately and eleven months later Giulia gave birth to their first child who was named Antonio. Three years later Giulia gave birth to another son named Domenico whom she named after her maternal grandmother, Elisabeth of Romania, who was the first woman to be proclaimed Queen of England.
Although Giulia Granger is often referred to as the quintessential ‘English princess’ it is doubtful if that label is deserved. As a child growing up in England, Giulia Granger had a steady diet of books, cartoons, movies and other forms of entertainment which all but confirmed that she would one day be a princess like her mother. When Giulia Granger was thirteen years old and college age, however, everything changed. This is when she began working part time in an advertising firm while also taking care of her younger sisters, Cosmo and Valerio. When Giulia’s mother died in a car accident, her father took over, and according to some accounts, turned out to be not particularly suitable to be a good husband for Giulia because of his drunkenness and violent nature which resulted in several miscarriages.
In the year nineteen ninety-one, Giulia Granger became a mother for the first time when her husband, Giuseppe Bellini passed away. Within two short years she had given birth to her daughter, Cosmo, who would become the middle child of the Granger family. Although Giulia never felt she had a lot of time or energy left to be a mother, she did not hesitate to become a dedicated and loyal friend to her daughter and to accompany her on all of her many travels throughout Italy, Spain and France. When Giulia gave birth to her last child, Valentina, in late September nineteen ninety-seven, there were many rumors that this would be the end of the Granger clan, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Not only did Giulia remain a faithful friend and traveling companion of her daughter throughout her pregnancies, but she remained by her side during the delivery of her son, Dio, in November nineteen ninety-two.