Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, son of Umberto II, the last king of Italy, and Maria José, has died. He would have turned 87 on February 12th.
He was investigated, and then acquitted, for the death of Dirk Hamer, a nineteen-year-old German killed in a shootout in 1978 on the island of Cavallo, in Corsica. The case was at the center of a bitter and long legal battle between the Savoys and the Hamer family, in particular their sister Birgit.