Royal Profile: Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples

Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amedeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria, Prince of Naples was born 12 February 1937 as the second child and only son of King Umberto II of Italy and Princess Marie-José of Belgium {Source}. He has one older sister, and two younger sisters, two brothers-in-law, two nieces, three nephews, two nephews-in-law, a niece-in-law, three great-nieces, and two great-nephews {Source}:

1. Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy (1940)
1. Robert Zellinger de Balkany (1931-2015, m. 1969, div 1990)
1. Marie Elizabeth Zellinger de Balkany (1972)
1. Olivier Janssens (1964, m. 2002)
1. Gabriella Luise Maria Janssens (2004)
2. Tommaso Janssens (2005)
3. Louis Janssens (2009)
2. Princess Maria Beatrice Caroline of Savoy (1943)
1.  Luis Rafael Reyna-Corvalán y Dillon (1939-1999, m. 1970)
2. Rafael Humberto Lupo  Reyna-Corvalán y de Saboya (1970-1994)
1. Margaret Beatty Tyler (1966, engaged, never married)
1. Uriel Tyler (1994)
1. Patrizio Reyna-Corvalán y de Saboya (1971-1971)
2. Azaea Beatrice  Reyna-Corvalán y de Saboya (1973)
1. Arturo Pando y Mundet (1973, m. 1996, div)
1. Marie-José  Pando y Reyna-Corvalán  (1996)

He was born in Italy, and left Italy when the Constitutional Referendum of 1946 abolishing the monarchy was passed in 1946{Source}. When his parents separated, he moved to Switzerland with his mother, where he grew up.

He married a Swiss biscuit heiress, who was also a world-ranked water-skier, Marina Ricolfi-Doria on 7 October 1971{Source}. Together, they have one son, a daughter-in-law, two biological granddaughters and two adopted grandsons{Source}:

1. Emanuele Filiberto Umberto Reza Rene Maria di Savoia-Carignano, Prince of Venice (1972)
1. Clotilde Courau (1969, m. 2003)
1. Princess Vittoria Chiara Cristina Adelaide Maria of Savoy (b. 2003),
2. Princess Luisa Giovanna Bianca Agata Gavina Maria of Savoy (b. 2006)
3. two sons adopted from Africa in 2011

He has spent his life doing odd jobs of sorts, ranging from a banker, to an aircraft salesman to an arms dealer {Source}


When his father left Italy, he took the hereditary Grand Masterships of the dynastic orders of the Royal House of Savoy with him, which have since been inherited by his son, they are:

• Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation
• Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus

On 7 July 2006, his third cousin, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta claimed to be the head of the House of Savoy and the Duke of Savoy on the grounds that Vittorio Emaniele had not seeked Umberto II's permission to marry in 1971. Amedeo received support from the Italian President of Council of Senators of the Kingdom at the time, Aldo Alessando Mol. Vittorio Emanuele and his son applied for judicial intervention to forbid Amedeo of the use of the title The Duke of Savoy, which was a case tat went in their favor-in 2010, the courts ruled that Amedeo and his son, Prince Aimone of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Apulia must pay damages upward of  €50,000 (that's $61192.50 usd ) to their cousins and cease using the Savoy name {Source}.