After featuring a handsome doctor in Paris, where could The Bachelor go? How could they top that? Well, how about a handsome Italian Prince in Rome?!

Or, at least, how about a relatively decent-looking Italian Prince who was raised in the U.S., didn't speak much Italian and so required intensive lessons before being shipped back to Rome for the show? Close enough, right?

Because that's what Prince Lorenzo Borghese was. While born in Milan, Italy (glamour!), he was raised in New Jersey (not quite the same!), and was descended from a line of Italian nobility that included Pope Paul V. His grandmother created the Princess Marcella Borghese Cosmetics Line, and Lorenzo himself has a line of…dog cosmetics.

So it's not exactly the fairy tale, but, as host Chris Harrison liked to remind us, “To marry a prince is every girl's dream.”

The skeptical viewer might think in response to that: Really? Every girl? Including lesbians? Or any woman who paid attention to Princess Diana's life? Or any woman who just couldn't give a crap about something like that?

Neverthless, the show was able to find 25 women willing to “take the journey” with Lorenzo, and possibly become a princess at the end.

Actually, they found 27 women.  This time, the 25 American women (well, 24 Americans and one Canadian) had to compete with 2 Italians. However, while one of the Italian women made it past the first Rose Ceremony, the final two women were both Americans, Jennifer Wilson, a teacher, and Sadie Murray, a publicist and admitted virgin.

Once again, The Bachelor claimed to be equally torn between the two women. He later reported to only have been able to make up his mind two hours before the final Rose Ceremony, in which he picked, but did not propose to, Jennifer.

He told her, “Jen, I do love you, I love everything about you [but] at this moment I can't ask you to marry me…We are in this Garden of Eden [and] I'm at the point where I know I love you -- I love every quality about you -- but I need to get out of this garden and go on Planet Earth and see that these emotions I feel towards you are real as they are in Italy that they are in the United States."

They weren't. The two broke up not long after the finale aired.

And in this case, his indecision between the two women might have been for real, and not just to heighten the finale drama. After his break-up with Jennifer, Lorenzo was reported to be dating Sadie again.

That didn't last either, though, and the two broke up earlier this year. The Bachelor: Rome, went down as yet another season without success.

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- Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Sources: About.com, RealityShack.com, RealityTVWorld
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