Brooke Shields was born in New York City into a well-known American society family with links to Italian and French nobility.Her grandmother was the Italian princess Donna Marina Torlonia 
 
Her father, Francis Alexander Shields (May 16, 1941 - April 27, 2003) was an American businessman and an executive at Revlon in New York. He was born in New York City, the eldest son of Francis Xavier Shields, a top-ranking American tennis player and of the Italian Princess Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi. Through his mother he is related to several Italian princely families (most notably Borgia, Medici, d'Este, di Savoia). His uncle, for example, was Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, the husband of the Spanish Infanta Beatriz de Borbón y Battenberg, so that he and King Juan Carlos of Spain share cousins in the Torlonia-de Borbón family.

In 1964, he married Maria Theresia Schmon (or Schmonn), better known as Brooke Shields' mother/manager, Teri Shields. They divorced, when Brooke was only five months old, Frank married again, in 1970, Diana "Didi" Lippert, former wife of Thomas Gore Auchincloss, who is the son of Hugh D. Auchincloss and half-brother of Gore Vidal and a stepbrother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. He had three daughters by his second marriage: Marina, Olympia, and Christina.He died in Palm Beach, Florida of prostate cancer at the age of 61. After starting his career on Wall Street, he moved to Palm Beach, Florida in 1988, forming a real-estate company. An avid hunter and fisherman, the 6-foot-5 inch Shields spent much of his free time at the camp he owned in rural west Florida, Canoe Creek.

Teri Shields (born Theresia Maria Schmon; August 1, 1933) a former model.  Shields was born in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Theresa (née Dollinger) and John Schmon. She was married to Francis Alexander Shields in 1964 and the following year she gave birth to their only child, a daughter, model-actress Brooke Shields. and five months later the couple divorced.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Shields  Teri's only acting was alongside her daughter and producing one of Brooke's films.

The Torlonias started out as French peasants named Antoine Torlonais, whose son, Marin born 1754, fled to Rome for opportunity, italianizing his name to Mario Torlonia who starting out as a modest cloth merchant, then started a tiny private bank,that under Giovanni grew to be the Bank to the Vatican , with numerous European branches. and the family prospers to this day.   House of Torlonia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Torlonia
 
Note that Brooke's French Monarchy ancestral connection is also through the Torlonia clan because of the Torlonia Intermarriage with the French Bourbon Dynasty.
 
I believe it important to know from where you came. But to take Pride in your Ancestors accomplishments is an EMPTY Pride.
You must then take Responsibility for all their Misdeeds, Greed, Inhumanities, etc. 
 
You should neither be dragged down by a modest background or be elevated by deeds of your fore bearers. 
The REAL Question is: Who are YOU, What is YOUR Character, and What have YOU contributed to making the World a better place? 
 
The Bible as usual is very contradictory since it says in Exodus 20:5 (NIV)  I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,But in Ezekiel 18:20; (Paraphrased) The Sins of the Father will not be Visited upon the Son (nor shall his Triumphs)!

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