They won. His father and grandfather who had ruled Italy since its unification in 1861 reigned over some 115,000 square miles. Victor Emmanuel, standing in the shadows, boosted it to 1,358,000.

The body of one of Italy’s last kings, Victor Emmanuel III, who ruled the country during the two world wars and the advent of fascism, was returned from Egypt early Sunday, greeted by a storm of ...

Faction: The Italian Army The Italian Army during the second world war was a Royal Army with King Victor Emmanuel III as Commander-in-Chief . However dictator and Prime Minister Mussolini and the ...

Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (1869 - 1947), circa 1895. Credit: Hulton Archive. Victor Emmanuel died in 1947 in Alexandria, Egypt, a year after he abdicated in favour of his son in an ...

The reburial of King Victor Emmanuel III's body has brought back difficult memories in Italy, reports the BBC's Sofia Bettiza.

Italy's pro-fascist king Victor Emmanuel III, who died in exile in Egypt after abdicating in 1946 will not be buried at Rome's ancient Pantheon monument, the speaker of Italy's upper house of ...

Victor's grandfather, King Victor Emmanuel III, had been condemned for collaborating with Benito Mussolini's anti-semitic race laws and the family went into exile in 1946.

A broadly conceived biography in which the life of Victor Emmanuel III is used to study the history of Italian constitutional monarchy from 1868 to 1946. While defending the late monarch, who in the ...

The remains of Victor Emmanuel III, who reigned as king of Italy through two world wars and died in exile in 1947, were flown back from Egypt on Sunday for reburial at the family mausoleum near Turin.