Editing Junio Valerio Borghese (section)

== Background ==
Junio Valerio Borghese was born in the Rome suburb of Artena. His family held the title of Prince of Sulmona, having been granted this title in 1610 by Philip III of Spain (at the time, Naples was a realm of the Spanish Habsburg family). As the second son of Livio Borghese, he would not inherit this title and instead was Patrician of Rome, Naples and Venice. 

Since his father was a diplomant, Junio Valerio spent time studying abroad in the UK and Portugal. In 1923, Borghese entered the Royal Naval Academy in Livorno, graduating in 1928 with a submarine specialization and an underwater diving certificate. He married Russian countess Daria Vasilyevna Olsufeeva in 1931, with whom he would have four children: Elena, Paolo, Livio and Andrea.