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VICTOR EMMANUEL III: (1869-1947) King of Italy 1900-46 who also served as Emperor of Ethiopia 1936-41 and King of the Albanians 1939-43. Bold, dark fountain pen ink signature ('Vittorio Emmanuele') to the upper edge of an 8vo page removed from an album, dated Athens, 11th April 1907 in his hand. Together with Elena of Montenegro (1873-1952) Queen consort of Italy 1900-46. Dark fountain pen ink signature ('Elena') and date, Racconigi, 1911, in her hand on an 8vo page removed from an album, also signed by Yolanda of Savoy (1901-1986) Italian Princess, eldest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III; Mafalda of Savoy (1902-1944) Italian Princess, second daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III, arrested by the Gestapo in September 1943 and placed in Buchenwald concentration camp where she died at the age of 41 (the lot also including an adult signature on another page); Umberto II (1904-1983) King of Italy May - June 1946, the only son of King Victor Emmanuel III; and also featuring the childlike 'signature' of the four-year old Giovanna of Savoy (1907-2000) Italian Princess, daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria 1930-43 as consort of Tsar Boris III (the lot also including an adult signature on another page); and further signed to the verso by Princess Helen of Serbia (1884-1962) Serbian Princess, daughter of King Peter I, later Princess Elena Petrovna of Russia and wife of Prince John Constantinovich of Russia from 1911-18; Louise Mountbatten (1889-1965) Princess of Battenberg, sister of Louis Mountbatten and Princess Alice of Battenberg (the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), later Queen consort of Sweden 1950-65 as the wife of King Gustav VI Adolf; and one other. Also including two further 8vo pages removed from an album and bearing seventeen further signatures of members of the House of Savoy and other royal families including Prince Filiberto of Savoy (1895-1990) Duke of Genoa and a General in the Royal Italian Army who supported Benito Mussolini; Prince Ferdinando of Savoy (1884-1963) Duke of Genoa and an Admiral in the Royal Italian Navy; Prince Tommaso of Savoy (1854-1931) Duke of Genoa, nephew of King Victor Emmanuel III; Prince Adalberto of Savoy (1898-1982) Duke of Bergamo, son of Prince Tommaso of Savoy, served as a General in World War I and World War II; Prince Eugenio of Savoy (1906-1996) Duke of Genoa, son of Prince Tommaso of Savoy; Princess Bona of Savoy-Genoa (1896-1971) Princess Bona of Bavaria, daughter of Prince Tommaso of Savoy; Princess Anne of Orleans (1906-1986) Duchess delle Puglie, wife of Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta; Princess Francoise of Orleans (1902-1953) French Princess, later a Princess of Greece and Denmark as the wife of Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark 1929-40; Prince Henri of Orleans (1908-1999) Count of Paris, the Orléanist claimant to the throne of France as Henry VI from 1940-99; Princess Adelaide of Savoy-Genoa (1904-1979) Italian Princess, daughter of Prince Tommaso of Savoy; Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896-1980) German Prince, husband of Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Philipp joined the Nazi Party in 1940 although later fell out of favour with Adolf Hitler and was placed in Flossenburg concentration camp (then Dachau) and was later arrested by US Forces at the end of the war, his relative Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was named after him; Frederick IX (1899-1972) King of Denmark 1947-72 (signed, as Prince, at Cannes in 1922, the year in which he was engaged to Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark); Prince Rene of Bourbon-Parma (1894-1962) Italian Prince, father of Queen Anne of Romania; and Princess Margaret of Denmark (1895-1922) Danish Princess, wife of Prince Rene of Bourbon-Parma. An impressive selection of signatures, most relating to the Italian royal family. Some very light, extremely minor age wear,