Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

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). He was also mockingly nicknamed sciaboletta, or "little saber", allegedly because his short stature required his uniform to be equipped with a saber shorter than the ordinary.

The Royal Family

Victor Emmanuel was the only child of Umberto I of Italy and Margherita Teresa Giovanna, Princess of Savoy. In 1896 he married Elena Petrovich (1873-1953), daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro (who was dethroned after World War I) and had children including:

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Umberto I of Italy - Margherita Teresa Giovanna, Princess of Savoy - 1896 - 1873 - 1953 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro - World War I

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• Yolanda Margherita Milena Elisabetta Romana Maria (1901-1986), married Giorgio Carlo Calvi, Count of Bergolo (1887-1977);
• Mafalda Maria Elisabetta Anna Romana (1902-1944), married Philip of Hesse-Kassel - she died in Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp;
• Crown Prince Umberto (1904-1983) who married (and later following the declaration of the Republic, separated from) Princess Marie José of Belgium
• Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria (1907-2000), married Boris III of Bulgaria
• Maria Francesca Anna Romana (1914-2001), married Prince Luigi of Bourbon-Parma (1899-1967)