The Dutch hard-Right activist involved in a free speech row with Keir Starmer is married to an Italian aristocrat, we can reveal.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who was denied an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) for Britain yesterday, is married to Francesco Gargallo di Castel Lentini – a Rome-based lawyer who has descended from a long line of Italian noblemen.
The couple met after Ms Vlaardingerbroek’s engagement to American political commentator Will Witt came to a sudden end in 2022 after their whirlwind romance began a year earlier.
It is unknown when or how the political influencer met her husband but the pair married in a lavish Catholic ceremony in Rome in July 2024.
Later in December of that year, they welcomed their son Filippo, presumably named after Francesco’s father, a successful lawyer and former Army officer Filippo Gargallo di Castel Lentini.
The Gargallo family has a long history in Italy, originally being based in Sicily.
In 2018, however, the family was drawn into the public spotlight after millions of dollars were stolen from Filippo’s villa in Rome.
The grandfather had been away on holiday in Sardinia when thieves entered the property in the Tomba di Nerone neighbourhood in Rome stealing valuable items and broke into two safes.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek, 29, is involved in a free speech row with Keir Starmer after she was denied an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) for Britain yesterday
Ms Vlaardingerbroek is married to Francesco Gargallo di Castel Lentini – a Rome-based lawyer who has descended from a long line of Italian noblemen
The break-in was discovered by a maid working at the property, who found the house ransacked of a lot of its possessions.
The millionaire owner, who specialises in military and environmental law, owns a law firm in Rome.
Francesco followed in his father’s footsteps and started his own career in law, graduating from the University of Rome in 2018.
He now practices in a number of countries around the world, when he is not travelling with his wife and son abroad to different political conventions.
One of his most recent cases involved defending a woman who refused to take a PCR Covid test in 2021 when she arrived in Norway from Spain.
Yet other than an X account where he mostly reshares his wife’s videos, Francesco keeps his life private on social media.
He sometimes makes an appearance on his wife’s Instagram account, for example in a Christmas wishes post, or standing outside the White House, but other than that remains quiet.
Vlaardingerbroek’s marriage to Francesco might have caused some surprise as until that point her romantic relationships were mostly centred around fellow hard-Right activists.
Ms Vlaardingerbroek with the leader of Germany’s far-Right party Alternative for Germany (AfD)
Ms Vlaardingerbroek, 29, shared the message she says she received from the Government
Ms Vlaardingerbroek began her rise to prominence in 2020 after putting her degree on hold to focus on climbing the political ladder. Across her social media account she repeatedly appears to touts the debunked conspiracy theories
In her 20s, while still a student, she was romantically linked with far-Right Dutch politician Thierry Baudet, 42, who founded the Forum for Democracy, which began as a think tank before changing into a political party.
Baudet previously spoke out about their ‘love affair’ which began when she was 20 and attended a lecture run by his think tank.
Speaking of the relationship, she said previously: ‘I met Thierry there [at the lecture]. We met up and had a few dates, but we didn’t click romantically.
‘My bad, so we ended things pretty quickly. And I’m sure he feels the same way. It was more of a fling.’
Years later, Vlaardingerbroek criticised Baudet while they were both on air, sparking an emotional reaction from him, leading him to mention their relationship.
She told Das Telegraaf: ‘Thierry knew how scared I was of this coming out. If it gets out, you don’t owe anything you’ve achieved to yourself.
‘What I feared happened: I was the “resentful ex”, and even more blatant sexist remarks poured in.’
Ms Vlaardingerbroek’s marriage to Francesco might have caused some surprise as until that point her romantic relationships were mostly centred around fellow hard-Right activists
Eva Vlaardingerbroek spoke at the ‘Unite The Kingdom’ rally in London last September
Following their brief ‘fling’ Vlaardingerbroek is said to have had a relationship with French author and former president of Génération Nation – the youth branch of the Right-wing populist party Front National. Their relationship is said to have ended in 2020.
A year later, she was introduced to American conservative commentator Mr Witt, later beginning a relationship with him. The pair became engaged in March 2022 but later went their separate ways.
Ms Vlaardingerbroek said last night that while she had no immediate plans to return to the UK, she was hoping to make a visit in May for another ‘Unite The Kingdom’ rally, organised by EDL founder Tommy Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
The political influencer had spoken at the last rally in September, where she reflected on the death of Charlie Kirk and encouraged protesters to stand up to their governments. The protest saw 26 police officers injured and 24 people arrested when violence broke out.
But now, following the decision from the Home Office, Ms Vlaardingerbroek will not be able to visit the UK without a visa and has no option to appeal, after it was declared her potential presence was ‘not considered to be conducive to the public good’.
Ms Vlaardingerbroek, 29, who later slammed the PM as a ‘tyrant’, peddles conspiracy theories like the Great Replacement theory and previously turned heads with her comments on the ‘sham’ of modern feminism.
Born in Amsterdam, she began her rise to prominence in 2020 after putting her degree on hold to focus on climbing the political ladder.
Across her social media account, she repeatedly touts the debunked conspiracy theories, claims she is being censored by the European Union and says she is being targeted by ‘two-tier justice systems’.
Meanwhile in an interview with The Spectator, the activist declared she would ‘love to be the new Nigel Farage’ and stage ‘Nexit’ in the Netherlands.
Dutch activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek is pictured here speaking at a ‘Remigration Summit’ at Teatro Condominio in Gallarate, Italy, on May 17, 2025
In one of the online rants from September she said: ‘Finally the world seems to be waking up to the fact that we Europeans have been replaced, sold out and betrayed by our own governments as by a result of their open border policies of mass migration, we are no longer safe and no longer at home in our own homelands.’
Her outspoken, extreme views led her to be labelled the ‘Aryan Princess’ or the ‘shield maiden’ of the far-Right in the media.
More recently, following the death of Right-wing American activist Kirk, Vlaardingerbroek, who has just over one million followers on X, spoke out repeatedly at public rallies across Europe on the issue.
During the Unite the Kingdom rally, she shared a clip of the march of mostly middle-aged, white men draped in Union Jacks, she said: ‘This was London today. There were MILLIONS of people on the streets. It was mind-blowing. This is a revolution.’
Vlaardingerbroek then went on to speak at the podium to crowds of hundreds.
In a clip shared to Instagram, with ominous war-like music playing in the background, she said: ‘Britons, patriots, my friends. We are fighting a fight of truth versus lies, of freedom versus tyranny, of light versus dark.
‘And just three days ago one of his greatest warriors lost his life fighting this. So today, we also fight for him, we fight for Charlie Kirk, we fight for our nations, we fight for our children.’
The activist was born in 1996 to her parents who both worked in classical music, with her father directing orchestras for the Dutch public broadcaster, while her mother was an editor on a radio channel.
She still remains close with her parents, who brought her up in a religious household in Amsterdam.
