Descendants of the last king of Italy, who was exiled in Portugal, tries to recover from the crown – Observer
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The descendants of Humberto II and Maria José, the last Italian monarchs, have made a formal request to recover the crown jewels, which have been stored in a vault at the Bank of Italy for 76 years.
More than 6,000 diamonds and 2,000 pearlss brooches are used and are used by several Italian queens and princesses in the Bank, advances the newspaper The Guardian. The couple’s children, descendants of the House of Savoy — Vítor Emanuel, Maria Gabriela, Maria Pia and Maria Beatriz de Sabóia — try to recover this estate.
The Bank of Italy received the jewels on June 5, 1946, three days after the Italians devoted themselves to the abolition of the monarchy and nine days before King Humberto II, who ruled only for 34 days, be banished into exile along with their male heirs.
King Humberto II and Queen Maria José traveled to Portugal, to Cascais, where most of their lives. Only in 1983 did they support the country towards Geneva, Switzerland, where the king on March 15 of that same year.
The jewels were a single royal property that the Italian state did not confiscate with the end of the monarchy, which may help the descendants of the House of Savoy who claim their possession.
A favor Vítor Emanuel, Maria Gabriela, Maria Pia and Maria Beatriz de Sabóia is a message that will have been kept with the “precious” jewels which read that they must be “kept at the disposal of those who are entitled”. It is with this note that the descendants defend that the Italian State cannot keep the diamonds and pearls.
the italian newspaper Il Giorno That the family is ready to take the State to court and the lawyer representing it, Sergio Orlandi, says that “the Savoyards will have their jewels back”.
It’s not yet how much 6,000 the clearest diamonds are worth and like 2 pearls, disparate estimates point to a value between 18 million euros and 300 million.