Death of Victor Emmanuel of Savoy, son of the last king of Italy. He left Italy at the age of 9, banished with all male descendants of the royal house by the Constitution of 1946, and was only able to return in December 2002.
Funeral services will be announced at a later date. He was the head of the House of. Savoy who ruled unified Italy from 1861 to 1946 and the son of. Umberto II, who only held the throne from May to June 1946.