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Since he got Albania's throne...
King's Ransom. By some standards Victor Emmanuel seemed to do very well indeed. Canny King Umberto took out ?1,000,000 insurance a short time before he was assassinated in 1900. Victor Emmanuel III acquired not only a throne but lots of money. He collected old coins, as well as new, and wrote about them in numismatic journals. Tidy and penurious, he was described by a friend as "a good husband, a loving father, a conscientious bureaucrat...
After Mussolini's fall and Italy's capitulation in 1943, it was only a question of time before opportunism would collect its due. But stubbornly the King procrastinated, hoping somehow to hang on to his throne. In 1944, he named his tall (6 ft.) playboy son and Crown Prince, Umberto, as "Lieutenant General of the Realm," subject to the people's will to be expressed by free vote. Victor Emmanuel remained a king in name only...
Died. Count Antal Sigray, 68, longtime campaigner for the restoration of the Habsburg monarchy, wartime concentration camp prisoner of the Nazis; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Jailed briefly in 1921 after a Graustarkian attempt to restore Emperor Charles to the throne, the count preserved the opera bouffe flavor of the episode by challenging government leaders who had "slandered" him while he was in prison (no one accepted the challenge...
...Michael, it was a cluttered courtship. When he left London he had decided not to return to his Communist-dominated country. In Lausanne, and in love, his throne assumed a new look. Reports said that he had requested his Communist-run government's permission to marry; his request had been approved in principle, but turned down as untimely. Michael's future as history's only Communist-dominated king still had to be decided...