King of Italy from 1900 to 1946
He wore the crown through Italy's fascist rise and catastrophic fall — the king who appointed Mussolini in 1922, stayed silent through the abuses, then turned on him too late to save the throne.
Victor Emmanuel III became King of Italy in 1900 after his father's assassination, presiding over nearly 46 years that would see two world wars and the fascist era. The first decade brought industrialization under prime minister Giovanni Giolitti and Italy's victory in World War I, which annexed Trento and Trieste and earned him the label "King of Victory." Facing political chaos and the fascist movement's March on Rome in 1922, he appointed Benito Mussolini as prime minister, then accepted additional crowns as Emperor of Ethiopia in 1936 and King of Albania in 1939 as Italian imperialism expa…
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