Word: umbertos
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King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto embarked on the royal yacht Savoia. Members of the Italian Parliament boarded the Citte de Trieste. Both ships steamed out in the Tyrrhenian as dark settled down. They steamed ahead laying a course between Sardinia and Corsica, their lights glittered on the water, but on all the wide expanse of sea no other lights were visible. Yet ships, big and little, airplanes and dirigibles were speeding through the darkness about them. A week's sham battle at sea was in progress. The "Red" fleet based on Sardinia was to try to capture...
...Rome, July 29 was commemorated fittingly; for on that day, 25 years ago, King Umberto, father of the present Monarch, was assassinated by an anarchist Italian hailing from Paterson...
King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Mother Margherita, widow of the murdered King, attended mass near the tomb of King Umberto in the Pantheon. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome, sent telegrams on behalf of the citizens to the King and Queen Mother, and issued a proclamation to the people, as a commemoration document, deploring the crime that ended King Umberto's life...
Twenty-five years ago, on July 29, the crack of an assassin's gun was heard in Rome: King Umberto had been murdered. Twenty-five years ago, on August 9, Prince Vittorio Emanuele was proclaimed King...
Past the King and Queen, who were accompanied by the Queen Mother Margherieta (proud of her son), Crown Prince Umberto, the Princesses Mafakla and Giovanna, the Duke and Duchess of Aosta (the King's cousins), Benito Mussolini and members of the Diplomatic Corps, marched a two-hour military and police parade. Later, a monster procession of more than 100,000 people, headed by a platoon of the Royal Guards on white chargers, marched past the Quirinal Palace, paying a tribute of cheers to its Sovereigns and receiving in return the King's salutes and the Queen...