Banned from Italy for over half a century, the pinnacle of the Home of Savoy was in a position to return to Rome in 2002. He died on February 3, at his house in Geneva, Switzerland.
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“At 7:05 this morning, on February 3, 2024, His Royal Highness Vittorio Emanuele, Duke of Savoy and Prince of Naples, handed away peacefully in Geneva, surrounded by his household.” It was with this sober assertion that the Home of Savoy introduced, on Saturday, the loss of life of Victor-Emmanuel, just a few days earlier than his 87th birthday.
Born in Naples on February 12, 1937, he was simply 9 years outdated when he went into exile after the Italians selected the Republic in a referendum on June 2, 1946. Nicknamed “the King of Might” as a result of he reigned for simply over a month, his father, Umberto II, had meant to abdicate in favor of Vittorio Emanuele, however was unable to take action.
The nascent Republic loathed this royal household, the image of greater than 20 years of compromise with fascism. Many didn’t forgive Vittorio Emanuele III (1869-1947), king from 1900 to 1946, for having accommodated the rise of Benito Mussolini, and specifically for having signed the racial legal guidelines of 1938. Publish-fascist Italy turned its again on the Home of Savoy. The brand new Italian Structure, which got here into drive on January 1, 1948, prohibited “the previous kings of the Home of Savoy, their wives and their male descendants from coming into and residing on nationwide territory.”
After a brief keep in Portugal, Vittorio Emanuele spent most of his exile in Switzerland. The prince was bored and his youth was spent playing. A lover of velocity, he practically killed himself on the wheel of his Ferrari and spent a number of intervals in hospital. In the summertime, he could possibly be discovered at posh events in Saint-Tropez or in winter at Crans-Montana, within the Swiss canton of Valais.
It was on this stylish Swiss resort in 1957 that he met Marina Doria, a former world champion water skier and daughter of a Swiss meals industrialist. His father opposed their union, as Doria was not of noble descent, however in 1969 Vittorio Emanuele got here up with a stratagem: He signed a decree proclaiming himself king and making a bespoke title of duchess for Doria. Their civil marriage came about in Las Vegas in 1970, with a spiritual marriage ceremony a yr later in Tehran, within the presence of the Shah and Princess Pahlavi, with whom he had developed an in depth friendship.
A troubled reunion
The summer time of 1978 marked a turning level within the lifetime of the exiled prince. Whereas vacationing at his Cavallo property in Corsica, Vittorio Emanuele discovered himself the protagonist of a brawl: An Italian yachtsman had borrowed the dinghy moored to his yacht. Livid, the prince tried to scare him off with a rifle. Not distant, a 19-year-old German, Dirk Geerd Hamer, was hit by a stray bullet. He died just a few weeks later. The scandal made the entrance pages of the worldwide press. This was the beginning of a protracted authorized course of, which resulted in 1991, earlier than the Paris Courtroom of Enchantment. The Prince was acquitted of murder however convicted of weapons offenses.
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