Wire of Humbert I {{er}} of Italy and Marguerite of Savoy, Victor-Emmanuel III of Savoy was born with Naples the November 11th 1869, and becomes king of Italy the July 29th 1900 after the assassination of his/her father.

He marries in Rome the October 24th 1896, Helene of Montenegro (January 8th 1873 † November 28th 1952), girl of Nicolas I {{er}}, king de Monténégro and of Milena Vukotic. They have 5 children:

• Yolande (1901 † 1986), married to Rome in 1923 with Charles Calvi (1887 † 1977), count of Bergolo,
• Mafalda (1902 † deceased with the concentration camp of Buchenwald 1944), married to Racconigi in 1925 with Philippe (1896 † 1980), Landgrave of Hesse,
• Humbert II (1904 † 1983),
• Jeanne (1907 † 2000), married in 1930 with Boris III (1894 † 1943), tsar of Bulgaria,
• Marie-Francoise (1914 † 2001), married to Rome in 1939 with Louis of Bourbon-Parma (1899 † 1967).

It takes again the colonial policy of the Italy with the unloading in Libya the September 29th 1911 and the occupation of the islands of the Dodécanèse in Aegean Sea in May 1912. By the peace of Lausanne of the October 18th 1912 the Turkey recognizes in Italy the possessions of the Tripolitaine and the Cyrénaïque.

At the time of the First World War it supports the position of neutrality of Italy. The political Irrédentisme concerning the provinces of the Trentin, the Istrie and the town of Trieste decides it to give up the Triple Alliance to fight L 'Austria-Hungary at the side of the allied .

The victory of 1918 makes it possible Italy to annex territories like the Trentin, the Haut-Adige, Trieste and the Istrie but not the Dalmatie what prevents it from becoming main Adriatique and makes peace unpopular.

In the context of economic crisis and policy of Inter-war period, the country knows a series of social agitations that the various governments do not manage to dam up, carrying the Fasciste S with the capacity.

After the Walk on Rome of the fascistic troops of Mussolini the October 26th, 1922, the king requires of this last, the October 28th 1922, to form a new government.

In April 1924, new elections take place, with many irregularities. The deputy Socialiste Giacomo Matteotti, who denounced these irregularities, is assassinated the June 10th 1924. The January 3rd 1925, the fascists assert the assassination. It is the beginning of the fascistic dictatorship .

The October 3rd 1935, the Italian troops based in Érythrée and Somalia invade the Ethiopia. The war finishes the May 9th 1936 with the proclamation of the Empire of Italian Eastern Africa, which is worth in Victor-Emmanuel III the title of emperor. In April 1939, the Albania is occupied and Victor Emmanuel III accepts the title of the king of Albania.

The axis Rome Berlin is signed in October 1936 and the pact of steel the May 22nd 1939. The June 10th 1940 Italy enters in war to the side of the Nazi Germany whereas the France is already overcome. The British offensive in Africa makes lose with the Italians their possessions on this continent.

The July 25th 1943, the unloading of the Alliés in Sicily involves the fall of the fascistic Dictature: The July 26th 1943 the king replaces Benito Mussolini by a right-hand man, the Marshal of Italy Pietro Badoglio. A situation of Civil war is established in the North of the country of the September 8th 1943 until the April 25th 1945 (République of Salo). The king, who after the September 8th 1943 had left Rome to fold up itself in the South occupied by the allies, yields the royal prerogatives to his Humbert son of Savoy the June 4th 1944, and withdraws public life. He abdicates in favor of his son Humbert II of Italy the May 9th 1946 and the June 2nd 1946, a referendum puts an end to the monarchy, which is replaced by a République.

Victor-Emmanuel III dies in exile with Alexandria in Egypt (accommodated by the king Farouk) the December 28th 1947. ----

Simple: Vittorio Emanuele III