Article: Is this girl the daughter Evita thought had died at birth? (1) SEEKING PROOF: Nilda says her late stepmother revealed her true parentage (2) 'SAINTLY': Eva Peron was worshipped in Argentina (3) EARLY LIFE: Nilda as a child, unaware Eva was her mother.

Byline: Claudia Joseph

SHE spent six years as Argentina's saintly First Lady, inspiringadulation from an impoverished nation as she visited shanty towns in her Diorsuits.

When Eva Peron died from cancer in 1952 at 33, her funeral inspired mourning ona scale not seen again until the tragedy of Princess Diana.

But now a pensioner has caused shockwaves by claiming that she is theillegitimate daughter of Eva, whom admirers had thought was childless.

Nilda Quartucci, 67, who lives in Buenos Aires, claims she was born duringEva's rise to fame and brought up by her lover - after Eva was told the babyhad been stillborn.

Permission for Eva's embalmed body to be ...

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