Benito Mussolini premier of Italy, representing King Victor Emmanuel III, and Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, representing Pope Pius XI, signed the historic documents precisely ...

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 facist party were in true ...

The last figurehead King, Victor Emmanuel III, remained until 1946, when he abdicated in favour of his son, Umberto II in an attempt to save the monarchy. However, the Italian people voted for a ...

“Revenge,” Italy’s late King Victor Emmanuel III once said, “is a dish that should be eaten cold.” Palmiro Togliatti, kingpin of Italy’s Communists, followed this royal precept last ...

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A descendant of Italy's wartime King Victor Emmanuel III has apologised to the country's Jewish community for his ancestor's role in dictator Mussolini's racial laws and the Holocaust.