Rome's last Doria Pamphilj princess adopted two English babies, and her daughter went to court to keep her brother's surrogate-born children out of the inheritance

The Palazzo Doria Pamphilj on Via del Corso holds Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X and two Caravaggios. It is probably the largest palace in Rome still in private hands. Prince Filippo Andrea VI opposed Fascism, hid with his family during the German occupation and became mayor of Rome in June 1944. He died in 1958, and his daughter Orietta became the last princess of the line. She married a Royal Navy commander, Frank Pogson, who took her name. They adopted two babies from a Catholic orphanage in London: Jonathan, born 1963, and Gesine, born 1964. Orietta died on 19 November 2000, and the two inherited the palaces and the collection. In 2006 Jonathan entered a civil partnership with Elson Edeno Braga, a Brazilian, at the British embassy in Switzerland. They had two children through surrogacy: Emily in 2006 and Filippo Andrea in 2007. In October 2009 Gesine, a Catholic with four daughters, asked a Rome court to rule that her brother's children could not inherit, citing Italy's law on assisted procreation. Reports put the fortune at about £1 billion. In 2010 the Rome court declined to hear the case. In 2013 the siblings put everything they had inherited into the Trust Doria Pamphilj, whose stated aim is to keep the collection and the palaces in Rome and Genoa together under one ownership. In 2026 the trust owns them, and the gallery is open to the public.