Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, The Prince of Naples was the only son of Umberto II, the last King of Italy, and his wife Marie-José of Belgium has passed away. He also used the title Duke of Savoy and claimed the headship of the House of Savoy.
Vittorio Emanuele Cause of death
Vittorio Emanuele died in Geneva, Switzerland on Saturday, February 3, 2024, at the age of 86 and the was no cause of death revealed.
Vittorio Emanuele’s obituary announcement
Vittorio Emanuele’s obituary announcement will be out soon.
Vittorio Emanuele was born February 12, 1937, in Naples to Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, who would later become the last King of Italy as Umberto II, and Princess Marie-José of Belgium.
When Umberto II left Italy after the monarchy was abolished by the 1946 Italian institutional referendum, the remaining members of the House of Savoy lived in exile, mostly in Switzerland and on the Portuguese Riviera, though the former king Victor Emmanuel III, grandfather to Vittorio Emanuele, lived in Egypt until he died in 1947.
Following the separation of the exiled ex-king and ex-queen, Vittorio Emanuele lived with his mother in an estate in Merlinge, Switzerland. Vittorio Emanuele and his family resided in Geneva.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
