Vittorio Emanuele was solely son of King Umberto II.
Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, son of Italy’s final king, Umberto II, died in Geneva on Saturday aged 86.
“At 7.05 this morning, 3 February 2024, His Royal Highness Vittorio Emanuele, Duke of Savoy and Prince of Naples, surrounded by his household, handed away peacefully in Geneva” – reads an announcement from the Actual Casa di Savoia – “The place and date of the funeral can be communicated as quickly as potential.”
The prince was the son of King Umberto II who dominated for less than 34 days after his father, King Vittorio Emmanuele III, abdicated on account of being discredited by his help for Mussolini throughout world battle two.
Vittorio Emanuele, who would have turned 87 on 12 February, left Italy in exile on the age of 9 after Italians voted to abolish the monarchy in 1946.
Final 12 months the inheritor to Italy’s defunct throne was the topic of a Netflix docuseries titled The King Who By no means Was.
Italy’s Festa della Repubblica, held annually on 2 June, commemorates the day in 1946 when Italians voted in favour of a republic and in opposition to the monarchy.
Vittorio Emanuele and his spouse Marina Ricolfi-Doria had one son, Emanuele Filiberto, who was born in Switzerland in 1972.
Emanuele Filiberto first set foot in Italy in 2002 when an modification was made to the Italian structure lifting the ban that had prohibited male descendents of the Home of Savoy coming into Italy.
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