Word: savoyism
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...Premier Giolitti called upon him, as an authority in Near Eastern affairs, to negotiate the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). And since then his success as Governor of Tripoli, and later as Finance Minister, has endeared him greatly to the House of Savoy and set him high in Fascist councils. Such was the suave oval-faced Italian, with level brows and a scrubby Van Dyck beard, who set sail with his Countess to talk of Italian debts upon an Italian-discovered continent...
...marrying a Roman Catholic and naturally the Hesse family would never acknowledge a Roman Catholic family (wife and future children) belonging to them as leaders. It is certainly a love match and of course a very poor marriage for the King of Italy's rich daughter; the Savoy family is very wealthy. But, owing to King Victor Emmanuel's hatred of social life and his insistence on a domestic life much more secluded than that of his subjects, his daughters, the Italian princesses, have grown up rather wild in their ways, with a hatred of the trammels...
Married. Mafalda, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, to Philip, Prince of Hesse, nephew of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II; at Racconigi, famed summer palace of the House of Savoy, before 40 kings, queens, princes and princesses, representing nine royal houses. The occasion was raised to historic significance because, for the rst time since the World War, a marriage was celebrated between royal families who were enemies during that conflict...
...with a personal income of some $4,500,000 a year, noted for his lavish entertainments. Last week he arrived in London with a suite of 50 and a retinue of servants numbering at least 20. He and his suite occupied the whole fifth floor (100 rooms) of the Savoy Hotel on the Strand, for which he is said to pay $1,000 a day. Two special Indian cooks prepare his food and a fleet of 20 limousines waits in constant attendance. A new elevator in scarlet and Chinese lacquer was installed for his especial benefit and, by throwing several...
King Vittorio is a small man, little more than five feet in height. He resembles more a prosperous farmer than a prince of the famous House of Savoy. Possibly there has never been a King in all history that has effaced himself so completely as has King Vittorio. Court formalities are the bane of his existence and he cuts them to a minimum. He is a constitutional monarch par excellence; indeed, it is said of him that "he is more constitutional than the Constitution...