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Yet the violent social tensions in Spain would soon put the Italian ruling couple into troubles. In 1873 Amedeo realized that governing wasn’t his best occupation: along with his wife he reached Portugal and there they embarked towards Italy, to get back to Turin, where the Palazzo Cisterna had just been properly restored. Maria Vittoria died for tuberculosis as she was still a young woman. Amedeo would remarry many years later, in 1888, with his niece Letizia Bonaparte, daughter of Maria Clotilde and Gerolamo Bonaparte, cousin of Napoleon III. That [Read more...]
Yet the violent social tensions in Spain would soon put the Italian ruling couple into troubles. In 1873 Amedeo realized that governing wasn’t his best occupation: along with his wife he reached Portugal and there they embarked towards Italy, to get back to Turin, where the Palazzo Cisterna had just been properly restored. Maria Vittoria died for tuberculosis as she was still a young woman. Amedeo would remarry many years later, in 1888, with his niece Letizia Bonaparte, daughter of Maria Clotilde and Gerolamo Bonaparte, cousin of Napoleon III. That was a diplomatic marriage, arisen in the context of Plombiéres. In the meanwhile, the three children he had with Maria Vittoria had grown. The first born was Emanuele Filiberto, the future Duke of Aosta, leading the Third Army in WWI. He fought valiantly, and he was among the few generals not overthrown in Caporetto. He could enjoy a strong personal and political retinue, especially among the high military ranks; he did not hide his sympathy for the fascist movement of Mussolini. To the extent that Mussolini himself, after the successful march on Rome, threatened Vittorio Emanuele III to replace him with the former, if he wouldn’t be entrusted with the government.
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