Victor Manuel de Saboya, in The Prince Who Never Reigned. (netflix)
prince Victor Emmanuel of SavoySon of the last King of Italy, has spoken candidly about one of the darkest episodes in his cousin’s life Juan Carlos de Bourbon, King Emeritus of Spain. In a documentary by Beatrice Borromeo, wife of Pierre Casiraghi, the Italian aristocrat attacks Felipe VI’s father. sharply and tells the details of the shot that killed his brother Alfonso.
As a child, Víctor Manuel was forced into exile in Portugal with his family after the fall of the Italian monarchy in 1946. There he spent many moments with Juan Carlos, since the Borbón family was also in exile. “I have a lot to tell but I can not. Things about Juan Carlos,” reveals the protagonist of the Netflix documentary The Prince Who Never Ruled.
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“He was very rude to my wife and I when we had disagreements. And I don’t know why because we were always very nice and he knew it. I was there. We were in exile and We used to shoot glasses and bottles on the beach in Cascais,” he recalls.
Juan Carlos de Borbón, in a file picture. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
The prince then recounts the day when, in his own words, “Juanito made a big deal out of it.” “He shot his brother and killed him. His name was Alphonsito. He didn’t shoot him directly, but through a closet. I was there,” he says. And he clarifies: “It was a hundred percent accident, right? I immediately hid my gun. If not, they would have blamed me again.”
According to the aristocrat’s account, after the episode that ended the life of young Alfonso at the age of 14, Franco decided that he would make Juan Carlos king.
Víctor Manuel and Marina de Saboya on their arrival in Madrid to attend Felipe and Letizia’s wedding in 2004. (Getty Images).
Beyond his unkind words towards the emeritus, Víctor Manuel de Saboya also addresses some of the biggest controversies in which he has been involved in his life in the documentary. One of them is the accidental murder for which he was convicted in France.
The events for which the Italian was put on trial occurred in August 1978 when he was on vacation in Corsica and was the victim of a dinghy theft from his yacht. prince shot Dirk Hammer with a rifle, a 19-year-old Norwegian whom he accused of robbery and who died instantly. Although Víctor Manuel was convicted of these incidents in 1987, he was acquitted in 1991.
In Spain, too, the son of Humberto II had a notorious conflict. And it so happens that he starred at the pre-wedding dinner of then-Princes Felipe and Letizia fights with his cousin Amadeo of Aostawhich he beat after arguing about succession rights to a hypothetical throne in Italy.
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