It is a page that is about to turn for the Royal House of Savoy. In an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Serra spotted by BFMTV, the pretender to the Italian throne, Emmanuel-Philibert of Savoy, indicated that he would give up his royal duties so that his 19-year-old daughter Vittoria would join him. succeeds.
“I will step aside and let a woman take the reins again, I’m sure she will do better than me,” said the man who has been crown prince of Italy since 1983. A passing of the torch made possible after the Emmanuel-Philibert’s father, Victor-Emmanuel of Savoy, abolished the Salic law in 2020. Since then, Vittoria, the eldest daughter of the Prince of Piedmont, has thus become second in the order of succession to the Italian throne.
“It was my father who made this decision, which I find very fair and modern. Soon, in Europe, there will be more queens than kings,” Emmanuel-Philibert told Corriere della Sera. “The Salic law is anachronistic, it is outdated. Men have nothing more, if nothing less,” he assures, before adding: “In my opinion, more women than men from the House of Savoy will go down in history. »
The Savoy family reigned in Italy until 1946, when the Italian monarchy was abolished and the republic proclaimed. Since that date, the descendants of Victor-Emmanuel III have lived in exile, recalls BFMTV. This exile will last until 2002 before Silvio Berlusconi, close to Victor-Emmanuel of Savoy, puts an end to it by abolishing the constitutional banishment clause.