King’s Ransom. By some standards Victor Emmanuel seemed to do very well indeed. Canny King Umberto took out £1,000,000 insurance a short time before he was assassinated in 1900. Victor Emmanuel III ...

MILAN (Reuters) - The remains of Victor Emmanuel III, who reigned as Italy's king through two world wars and died in exile in 1947, were flown back from Egypt on Sunday for reburial at a family ...

ROME—The remains of Italy’s exiled King Victor Emmanuel III, praised by some for his rule during World War I but criticized for permitting the rise of fascism in the years leading up to the second ...

1922: Benito Mussolini, the founder of fascism, is appointed Italian prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III. (He was dismissed by Emmanuel in 1943 after ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. Italy’s Fascist regime ended on July 25, 1943, when Benito Mussolini was arrested on order ...

The choice of October 28th as the date for Fascist Italy’s attack on Greece was far from coincidental. Beyond Mussolini’s ...