Alexander Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte
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Sir Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte, KCVO, OCI (28 June 1854 – 1 June 1937), of Castello di Maniace, Bronte, and La Falconara (now "Villa Nelson"),[1] Taormina, both in Sicily, and of 13 Pelham Crescent, South Kensington, London, was a British courtier and Sicilian nobleman. "Discreetly homosexual"[2] and described by his Sicilian biographer as "intelligent and refined",[3] he was well-respected and liked by the Brontese, and spent six months of each year resident at Maniace until his old age.[2] He was, like many contemporaries in his pre-World War II aristocratic circle, a "great admirer of Mussolini and the Fascist regime".[2]