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  Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Emmanuel, prince of Naples, or Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amedeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria de Savoie, born February 12, 1937, is the head of the house of Savoy.
Victor Emmanuel was born February 12, 1937 in Naples to Umberto II, the last king of Italy and princess Marie José of Belgium.
In Naples, where Victor Emmanuel was born, and from where his family sailed into exile in 1946, noisy demonstrations were staged by two traditionally opposing factions: anti-monarchists on one hand, and supporters of the Bourbon kings of Naples, whose family was deposed when Italy was united in 1861 under the house of Savoy.
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 Encyclopedia: Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples
Victor Emmanuel II (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; March 14, 1820 – January 9, 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia from 1849–1861.
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (11 November, 1869 – 28 December, 1947), was the King of Italy (29 July, 1900 – 9 May, 1946), and claimed the titles Emperor of Ethiopia (1936 - 1943) and King of Albania (1939 - 1943).
Victor Emmanuel told the press that the audience with the supreme pontiff was "very important" to their family and that "it [was] almost a page in history." October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining.
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 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Victor Emmanuel III's position as Emperor of Ethiopia (additional info and facts about Emperor of Ethiopia) was not universally accepted, as Italy had overthrown the native Emperor, Haile Selassie (Emperor of Ethiopia; worshipped by Rastafarians (1892-1975)).
Victor Emmanuel was the only child of Umberto I of Italy (additional info and facts about Umberto I of Italy) and Margherita Teresa Giovanna, Princess of Savoy (additional info and facts about Margherita Teresa Giovanna, Princess of Savoy).
Defenders of Victor Emmanuel have suggested that his decision not to oppose Mussolini's rise to power was based on the consideration of the economical damages caused by the constant collapsing of earlier governments, Mussolini offering a stability that the Italian Kingdom craved.
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 SAW-FLY - LoveToKnow Article on SAW-FLY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Victor Emmanuel I. (1802 1820) remained in Sardinia until by the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna (June 9, 1815) his dominions were restored to him, with the addition of Genoa.
The latter being without, a son, the succession devolved upon Charles Albert, of the cadet line of the princes of Carignano, who were descended from Thomas, youngest son of Charles Emmanuel I. Charles Albert abdicated, on the evening of his defeat at Novara (April 20, 1849), in favor of his son Victor Emmanuel II.
The second son of Victor Emmanuel II., Amadeus, duke of Aosta, was offered the crown of Spain by the Cortes in 1870, which he accepted, but, finding that his rule was not popular, he voluntarily abdicated in 1873 rather than cause civil war.
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 KING HUMBERT - LoveToKnow Article on KING HUMBERT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On the 11th of November 1869 Margherita gave birth to Victor Emmanuel, prince of Naples, afterwards Victor Emmanuel III.
Ascending the throne on the death of his father (9th January 1878), Ilumbert adopted the style Hurnbert I. of Italy instead of Humbert IV., and consented that the remains of his father should be interred at Rome in the Pantheon, and not in the royal mausoleum of Superga (see CRIsPI).
He was buried in the Pantheon in Rome, by the side of Victor Emmanuel II., on the 9th of August 1900.
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 Italy's royals face hostility - theage.com.au
The three-day visit to Naples by Prince Victor Emmanuel, the 65-year-old head of the House of Savoy, his wife, Marina Doria, and their son, Emmanuel Filiberto, 30, was intended to be a grand official homecoming from Switzerland.
Instead, Victor Emmanuel's expressions of "love" for his native land have been met by hostility in Naples - where he was born and from where he sailed into exile at the age of 9 - and derision throughout much of Italy.
Naples socialites battled for invita-tions to drinks at the Circolo dell'Unione, the city's stuffiest club, or to a gala dinner at the glitzy Vesuvius Hotel, where the Savoys are staying.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
Crown Prince Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples Victorio Emanuele
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 The Spectre That Haunts Italy's Royals
Instead, the prince’s expressions of “love” for his native land was met by hostility within Naples – where he was born and from where he sailed into exile at the age of nine – and derision throughout much of Italy.
An impulsive man, the present-day Victor Emmanuel, who has renounced all claims to the throne, did little to enhance the family reputation P P when, five years ago, he described Mussolini’s racial laws – which eventually led to the deportation of 8,000 Jews to concentration camps – as “not all that bad”.
Naples socialites battled for invitations to drinks at the Circolo dell’Unione, the city’s stuffiest club, or to a gala dinner at the glitzy Vesuvius Hotel, where the Savoys stayed.
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 Victor Emmanuel III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Victor Emmanuel studied history and law, and received military training that resulted in his holding positions of command from 1887.
Victor Emmanuel III maintained support for Italy's membership in the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, but also agreed with the Italian rapprochement with Britain, France, and Russia -- the Triple Entente -- concerning Mediterranean affairs, which facilitated Italy's military venture in Libya against the Turks, 1911-1912.
Victor Emmanuel then persuaded the other Allied leaders that Italy could hold the enemy at the Piave River, and he exhorted the nation and the army to rally for the defense of the Piave line.
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 Emmanuel - All About All findings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emmanuel Mounier(philosophe français 1905-1950) Mounier was the guiding spirit in the French personalist movement, and founder and director of Esprit, the magazine which is the organ of the movement.
Victor Emmanuel of Savoy, prince of Naples Italian Royalty House of Savoy Victor Emmanuel II Children Princess Marie Clothilde Prince Umberto Prince Amadeo Princess Maria Pia Umberto I Children Prince Victor...
Emmanuel Schelstrate (1649-1692) was a Catholic theologian born at Antwerp in 1649.
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 Family Origins  - Naples
southwest of Rome, Naples is situated at the foot of Mount Vesuvius in the midst of a volcanic area at the rear of the Bay of Naples.
Naples is one of the oldest European cities whose present-day urban fabric conserves the elements of its long history, Which was rich with events.
It was at Teano in the Province of Caserta that the historical encounter between Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi took place on 26th October 1860, marking the unification of Italy under the House of Savoy.
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 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Long road home for Italy's royals
But King Victor Emmanuel's wartime ties with dictator Benito Mussolini, and his 1943 decision to flee to Brindisi as German troops turned against their former Italian allies, proved too much for the public to stomach.
Victor Emmanuel created his own flurries of media excitement, once for playing down the significance of the anti-Jewish laws signed by his father - for which he later apologised, and once for allegedly shooting a German tourist on his yacht - for which he was cleared of manslaughter.
Emmanuel Filiberto's publicly-stated dreams of eating his pizza in Naples remain to be fulfilled - but the family has at least reached the end of the long road home.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2601321.stm   (656 words)

  
 Victor Emmanuel II on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Plebiscites in Naples and Sicily and in the Marches and Umbria (two provinces of the Papal States) favored union with Sardinia, and in 1861 the kingdom of Italy was proclaimed with Victor Emmanuel as king.
Siding (1866) with Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War, Victor Emmanuel was awarded Venetia in the peace settlement.
The remainder of Victor Emmanuel's reign was spent in the consolidation of the new kingdom.
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 Italian Royal Family
Victor was King of Sardinia and became King of the united Italy on 17 March 1861.
Victor Emmanuel of Savoy (Prince of Naples and Duke of Savoy)
Prince Victor Emmanuel is the present Head of the Royal House of Savoy.
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 VICTOR EMMANUEL III. - LoveToKnow Article on VICTOR EMMANUEL III.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(1869-), king of Italy, son of King Humbert I. and Queen Margherita of Savoy, was born at Naples on the nth of November 1869.
Entering the army at an early age he passed through the various grades and, soon after attaining his majority, was appointed to the command of the Florence Army Corps.
The prince's intellectual and artistic leanings were well known; in particular, he has made a magnificent collection of historic Italian coins, on which subject he became a recognized authority.
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 Humbert II of Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Prince of Piedmont was educated to a military career and in time became the commander in chief of the Northern Armies, and then of the Southern ones.
Had Victor Emmanuel III handed over the throne in 1943, it is likely that the monarchy would have won the 1946 referendum on its survival.
Humbert was the last King of Italy; his first son, Prince of Naples, is the current Head of the House of Savoy.
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 Telegraph | News | Queen Marie Jose of Italy
She was the third and last child of Prince Albert and his wife, the former Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria, a niece of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
Victor Emmanuel's abdication on May 9 1946 came too late to save the monarchy, though the result of the referendum held on its future a month later was a close one.
Her son Victor Emmanuel has made some headway towards clearing the parliamentary and constitutional hurdles that still stand in the way of his own return to Italy.
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 plombieres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Prince Napoleon, even more Corsican than his cousin, would mortally hate us; the position he occupies, to say nothing of that to which he may aspire, as well as the affection and I would almost say the weakness the Emperor has for him, all this would give him many ways of satisfying his hatred.
Prince Napoleon does not belong to an ancient sovereign family, but his father endowed him with the most glorious name of modern times; and through his mother, the Princess of Wurtemberg, he is connected with the most illustrious princely houses of Europe.
The Prince has since then become quite moderate; but what does him great honour is that he remains faithful to the liberal principles of his youth while renouncing the application of them in any unreasonable or dangerous fashion, and that he has kept his old friends even when they were in disgrace.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sardinia
Victor Amadeus 111 (1773-96), for having crushed the nationalist movement in Savoy (1791) with excessive severity, was overthrown by the revolutionary army which captured Savoy and Nizza.
Charles Emmanuel withdrew to Sardinia; and in 1802 abdicated in favour of his brother Victor Emmanuel I (1802-21), who in 1814 was returned to Turin and saw his dominions increased by the inclusion of Genoa.
As the king had agreed with Austria and Naples not to grant the Constitution, he abdicated in favour of Charles Felix, his brother, who was absent at the time; Charles Albert, Prince of Carignano, assumed the regency and on 13 March, 1821, promulgated the Constitution of Spain, which was not accepted by Charles Felix (1821-31).
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 BBC NEWS | Europe | Italy's royals return home
Victor Emmanuel, the son of Italy's last king, has returned to Italy after more than half a century in exile.
But Victor Emmanuel's decision to make his first visit to the Vatican - rather than to the Italian president or Naples, which he left as a nine-year-old boy in 1946 - has earned criticism from some who saw it as inappropriate.
The BBC's Rome correspondent, David Willey, says Victor Emmanuel, his wife, Marine Doria, and their son, Emmanuel Filiberto, were whisked away from the airport in two cars provided by the Vatican.
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 Bonaparte. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 1803–57, prince of Canino, son of Lucien, lived in the United States from 1824 to 1833 and was important as a naturalist, particularly as author of American Ornithology (4 vol., 1825–33, in English).
In 1870 he killed the journalist Victor Noir in the heat of a quarrel but was acquitted of murder.
Prince Napoleon became a pretender to the throne after the death of the only son of Napoleon III, Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte, 1856–79, the Prince Imperial, who was killed while fighting the Zulus as a member of the British army.
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 United Press International - International - Son of Italy's last king ends exile
In exile Victor Emmanuel was a controversial figure, criticized for lacking what the newspaper La Stampa called "the dignity of the monarchy." The would-be king was accused of manslaughter in 1978 for the slaying of a German tourist, Dirk Hamer, who was shot trying to climb aboard the family's yacht.
Victor Emmanuel also said in recent years that anti-Semitic laws passed under the Mussolini regime were "nothing really terrible," a statement he later issued an apology for to Italy's Jewish leadership.
His son, Emmanuel Filbert, is a former disc jockey who has spent much of his adult life jet-setting around Europe, cultivating an image as one of the continent's most eligible bachelors and upsetting Italians by announcing that he has no intention of giving up his banking job in Zurich.
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 Fourteen Months Abroad - Naples, Italy
After I left, the Prince and Princess of Naples were there—the Prince on horseback and the Princess in her carriage.
Naples is not only the largest city in Italy and the most picturesque, but resembles a foreign city more than any we have visited and this we enjoy.
Naples is undoubtedly, with the exception of Constantinople, the most picturesque city in the world.
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 ipedia.com: Umberto I of Italy Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ascending the throne on the death of his father (9 January, 1878), Umberto adopted the style "Umberto I of Italy" rather than "Umberto IV" (of Savoy), and consented that the remains of his father should be interred at Rome in the Pantheon, and not in the royal mausoleum of Superga (see Crispi).
Above all King Umberto was a soldier, jealous of the honour and prestige of the army to such a degree that he promoted a duel between his nephew, Victor Emmanuel, Count of Turin (died 1946), and Prince Henry of Orleans (15 August 18?7) on account of the aspersions cast by the latter upon Italian arms.
He was buried in the Pantheon in Rome, by the side of Victor Emmanuel II, on 9 August, 1900.
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 The Court Jester
In 1878 Victor Emmanuel II and Pius IX died, succeeded by a pious Humbert I and Leo XIII respectively.
Victor Emmanuel III became Emperor of Ethiopia and King of Albania in 1936 (renounced in 1943).
At that dinner was Victor Emmanuel and the current representative of his family’s archenemy of six centuries, his cousin Amadeo, the Duke of Aosta.
www.etoile.co.uk /Columns/CourtJester/050527.html   (2179 words)

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