Daisy di Robilant

Contessa Daisy di Robilant (1870–1933) was an Italian noblewoman, fascist, feminist and campaigner for children's and women's rights. She campaigned for legislation that would protect unwed mothers and their children, women's suffrage and welfare reforms, as well as becoming a spokeswomen for the early fascist regime.

Activism Di Robilant was founder and president of the National Mothers' Aid Society, which provided temporary shelter for homeless single mothers and their children. She was also a member of the International Child Welfare Committee. In the 1910s and 1920s, she lobbied Italian governments for legislation that would protect unwed mothers and their children

When Benito Mussolini took power as totalitarian dictator of Italy in 1922, di Robilant became a supporter of his fascist regime. She approved of the health and welfare reforms introduced by Mussolini,

Di Robilant campaigned for women's suffrage in Italy and was a leader of the Pro-Suffrage Alliance in Italy (also known as the International Woman Suffrage Alliance) from 1923. She succeeded Gabriella Rasponi Spalletti. While di Robilant served as leader, the CNDI worked on the causes of infant mortality and failure to thrive, the social problem of child abandonment, public welfare programmes, the provision of playgrounds and the effects of rheumatism on children. The council also provided free legal advice for women. Her parents were married in 1869 and had two other children: Clothilde (known as Hilda, born in 1872) and Ugo (born in 1877). They had two daughters: Irene di Robilant, who became a journalist; and Maria Luisa di Robilant, who married World War I flying ace Count Flaminio Avet in 1925.

In 1924, di Robilant was visiting her daughter Irene in New York, United States, and was reportedly robbed. According to the report, two men stole over $50,000 worth of jewels from her, allegedly including a diamond necklace "presented by Napoleon to his sister".

In 1897, Italian painter Giacomo Grosso painted a portrait of di Robilant, Ritratto della contessa Daisy de Robilant Francesetti di Malgrà, which nows hangs in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.

Di Robilant died in 1933.