Prince Victor Emmanuel of Savoyson of the last king of Italy, died this Saturday in Geneva, Switzerland, at the age of 86 and after a long exile. He is the last heir of Umberto IIwho held the throne for a short period between May and June 1946, when the Italians became a Republic.
It was the Royal House of Savoy that confirmed the news with an official statement: “His Royal Highness Vittorio Emanuele, Duke of Savoy and prince of naplesdeceased gently in Geneva surrounded by his family.
The text specifies that the place and date of funeral They will be communicated in the next few hours.
The prince’s lawyer, Sergio Orlandi, specified that the death occurred in the morning, the AFP agency reported.
The aristocrat left his country at the age of 9, exiled together with all male descendants of the royal house since the 1946 Constitution, as sanction for the collaboration of his grandfather, Vittorio Manuele III, with Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime and the signing of two racial laws.
Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy: exile, return and a life studded with scandals and controversies
Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, born on 12 February 1937 in Naples, He was the patriarch of the house of Savoywho reigned in united Italy from 1861 to 1946, and son of Italy’s last monarch.
exiled, He returned to his country in December 2002, after the revocation of the exile voted by the Italian Parliament. To get it, he had to swear allegiance to the Republic, gesture that was there refused for a long time.
In 1978 it was accused of shooting to death to a young German tourist, Dirk Hamer, in southern Corsica. After a long trial, the prince, who declared himself innocent, He was acquitted in 1991.
Netflix recounts this event in the series “In the shadow of the throne“, broadcast on the platform from July 2023.
In 2006 he was involved in a case of procure and the slot machines that earned him a week in prison and a month of house arrest.
The monarch married in 1970, in a civil marriage, the heiress of a rich family of Swiss industrialists of Italian origin, Marina Recolfi-Doria, a water skiing champion.
Víctor Manuel and Marina de Saboya, when they went to the royal wedding of King Philip of Spain and Letizia Ortiz. AP photoSince Umberto II was against the marriage, the religious ceremony was held a year later in privacy and with the Shah of Iran as witness.
Source: Clarin
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