Trouble in the House of Savoy

Today the Duke of Aosta was declared to be the Duke of Savoy.

Pink & Perky sing loudly...

.....or even the celebrated, cultivated, underrated, Duke of Plaza Toro!

Honestly! *what* is wrong with you people in here? - urinating yourself with
excitement at the doing's of every spaghetti twirling gigolo who assumes a
'title' and an appropriate swagger!

And not just European 'nobility' (as if that wasn't bad enough!), there is
no bone pierced savage to whom you will not bow if you believe that it
carries a 'royal' bloodline!!

This sort of nonsense by Americans I can understand - they are simple enough
to swallow any cock & bull story. What *is* galling is to see British
posters also indulging in this mindless adulation.

Gunboats and Bibles, that's the only thing that Johnny Foreigner needs from
us - be he King or Coconut Gatherer!

Tom Wilding / Stephen Stillwell...

By whom? Himself?

Seth...

Apparently the "Council of the Crown of Italy" did it.

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Frank R.A.J. Maloney...

Here's a brief story in English from AGI Online:

'VITTORIO EMANUELE DI SAVOIA 'OUSTED' BY COUSIN AMEDEO

'(AGI) - Rome, July 7 - Neverending trouble for Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia,
under house arrests in Rome. As of today, his cousin, Amedeo d'Aosta, is
"the chief of the Savoia family, and Duca di Savoia, holding all the
relevant titles and powers": that's what the council of the kingdom senators
decided. The body was established in 1955, with the approval of former King,
Umberto II, to preserve the traditions of the senate in the Kingdom of
Italy. The official reason is Vittorio Emanuele's marriage to a bourgeois
without the approval of a former king. Yet it is probable that the recent
judicial affairs have played an important part. Filippo Bruno di Tornaforte,
an 'insider' of Vittorio Emanuele's sphere, expressed "disappointment and
astonishment for a judicially groundless decision". Today, he added, a joint
press conference with the representatives of the foremost monarchic
movements might be called to retort.'

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