Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral in the northern Italian city of Turin on Saturday of Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, the only son of Italy's last king, who died last week aged 86.

Fifty-nine years ago when ten-month-old Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, swung a royal rattle, and 13-year-old Achille Ratti declined irregular verbs in a Milan seminary, the troops of small ...

Early life Emanuele's grandfather, King Umberto, was the last King of Italy, with his reign lasting just over a month. Emanuele's father, Prince Vittorio, claimed to be the head of the House of ...

The King’s Hope. Last week correspondents in Naples reported that the Allies—with some help from the King—may have saved Vittorio Emanuele for the time being.