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The son of Umberto I of Savoy and Margaret of Savoy, at birth he received the title of Prince of Naples, in the obvious intent to underline the national unity, reached recently.

His long reign (46 years) saw, in addition to the two world wars, the introduction of universal male suffrage (1912) and female (1945), the first important forms of social protection, the decline and collapse of the liberal state (1900-1922), the birth and collapse of the fascist state (1925-1943), the composition of the Roman question (1929), the achievement of the highest territorial boundaries of united Italy and the major conquests in colonial sphere. He died just over a year and a half after the end of the Kingdom of Italy.

Following the victory in the First World War, he was called "King soldier".

He played a fundamental role in the end of Italian neutrality and the entry into war during the First World War, in the affirmation of fascism, in colonial wars and in the entry into war during World War II, in Mussolini's exposing of which he followed the precipitous escape from Rome after the armistice of 1943 leaving army and civilians to themselves. In 1946 he made a late attempt to save the monarchy by abdicating in favor of his son and opting for a self-exile in Egypt. In Italy the dedicated odonyms are 409 and are distributed in a difform manner.

Biography

Childhood and youth

First years and education

Vittorio Emanuele was born in Naples on November 11, 1869, where his parents were visiting. In addition to the names of Vittorio Emanuele Ferdinand, in honor of his grandparents, his mother Margherita wanted to be baptized also with the names of Mary and Gennaro, so as to extend relations with the Church (at the time pessimi) and conquer the affection of the Neapolitan subjects.

The young prince did not have a very happy childhood: a little because the traditional pedagogical education of Casa Savoia, severe and military style, did not favor expansion and affective slanci, a little because none of his parents (with whom he was allowed to desinate only twice a week) never cared about him. After the birth he was given a local nursing nurse, while for his first education Margherita chose an Irish nurse named Elizabeth Lee, known as "Bessie", a widow of a British officer and especially a Catholic observer.

She remained for fourteen years with the young prince and was probably the only person for whom he had ever developed a filial affection. Moreover Vittorio Emanuele suffered tremendously for his physical deficiencies and this led him to develop a bright and reflective character to the limit of cynicism: it seems that once Margherita had proposed to him to walk together for Rome and he answered his mother: "And where do you want to go and show yourself with a dwarf? ».

To compensate for the physical deficiencies