Margherita of Savoy

Margarethe Maria Therese Johanna ( full name: Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna di Savoia, born November 20, 1851 in Turin, † January 4, 1926 in Bordighera ) was Queen of Italy. She was an ardent nationalist and deeply religious. She supported the rise of Benito Mussolini.

Origin and marriage

Margaret was the daughter of Prince Ferdinand of Savoy, 1st Duke of Genoa ( 1822-1855 ) and the Saxon royal Princess Elizabeth ( 1830-1912 ).

They married on April 22, 1868 in Turin with her cousin, the then crown prince of Italy, Umberto I, who ascended the throne in 1878. She was the mother of the Crown Prince, later to become King Victor Emmanuel III. of Italy.

Margaret was a generous patron of the arts. The Italian poet Giosuè Carducci in 1878 dedicated to her a well-known ode.

Margaret was also related to the St. Elizabeth of Thuringia. Since the St. Elizabeth spent her last three years of life in Marburg after her marriage to the Landgrave of Thuringia, visited the Italian Queen 1897 the region. Since she liked the being beaten to welcome soldiers of the Marburg garrison and she told this Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed the German Emperor, the Italian Queen to the boss of lying in Marburg Prussian Jager Battalion 11, the former Kurhessische Battalion 11 Since that time wore the Marburger hunters as a special token of appreciation, the Italian crown and a large "M" for " Margaret " on their epaulettes.

Umberto I fell in 1900 to the assassination of an Anarchist victim. After his death she lived in the Palazzo Margherita in Rome.

Trivia

  • The Pizza Margherita is named after the Queen.
  • After Queen Margherita the alpine hut Capanna Regina Margherita on the Signalkuppe and Punta Margherita, one of the summits of the Mont Blanc mountain range is named.
  • The highest peak of the Rwenzori Mountains in Africa, the Margherita Peak, also bears her name.

Visit to France

1908 Margaret traveled to France to see in Le Mans, the first demonstration flights in Europe by Wilbur Wright, who was there as a guest of Leon Bollee.

Queen Margaret founded about this time one held in the allegorical style airship price that showed a baroque balloon. Even in their compound showed to aviation. An illustration of the price can be found in the book " We aeronauts " by Dr. Bröckelmann ( Ullsteinhaus Vienna 1909) on page 154

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