An unwanted Kingdom
30 may 1845 18 January 1890 Amedeo di Savoia, duca d'Aosta was born in Turin on 30 April 1845, third son of the King of Sardinia as well as next King of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II and Maria Adelaide Rainier von Habsburg. Entrusted to General Raja, receives military training inspired from an early penalty. General of Brigade Grenadiers, in 1866 fights valiantly to Monte cross, at the battle of Custoza, and was wounded and deserving of the gold medal for military valour. In 1867 he married the Princess Maria Vittoria, daughter of Prince Carlo Emanuele dal Pozzo della Cisterna and Countess Louise de Mérode; from the marriage were born Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Vittorio Emanuele, count of Turin and Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi. In 1868 left the army to the Navy where the following year he was placed in command, with the rank of Admiral, Mediterranean fleet. After the revolution-Bourbon rebellion of 1868 and the deposition of Isabella II, on 16 November 1870 constitutional monarchists in Parliament will appoint Kings of Spain, dusting off an old agreement of 1718. It's General Joan Prim i Prats, former President of the Superior Council of revolution and then President of the Council of Ministers to want it, with the coronation for the first time in 1868, but received a refusal, and returning to the fray in 1870, after the resignation of Leopold Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. He was initially reluctant, relents at her father's insistence and accepts the title with the name of Amadeus I, formally committing to respect the Constitution. But the son of Victor Emanuel II, the King who only a few months before has put an end to the existence of the Papal States, cannot hope some consensus of the clergy, which immediately shows deeply hostile. And realizes that being unpopular, as foreign, even to the people and a large part of the nobility. Among other things he came suddenly to miss the authoritative political support of Prim, victim of an attack in December 1870, when he arrived in Spain. The serious disagreements among the parties, which shall determine the Carlist uprisings and Republican & the fall of six Governments, the defeat of the royalists constitutionalists 1872 elections and finally the attack immediately on 18 July 1872 in Arenal Street cause him, encouraged by his wife, to give up the Crown. A clash with the current Government gives it the pretext, the 11 February 1873, for the abdication. Together with the family is back in his beloved Turin, after a brief stop at Portugal's King Ludwig I's brother-in-law, the husband of Maria Pia of Savoy. Upon arrival at home is greeted by a festive throng. Three years later, heavily mined in body especially from tormented period Madrid, Maria Vittoria dies just 29 years old. He picks up the military life, holding various positions of the first order. Twelve years later, in 1888, goes to a new marriage with the grand daughter Letizia Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Jerome Napoleon and great-grandson of the former Emperor, and Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy. The Union was born Umberto, count of Salemi, in June 1889, just six months before his premature death; Amadeus I of Spain dies in Turin on 18 January 1890 only 45 years.