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Monza
Queen
Margherita
Villa Reale in Monza, detail of the main block
Margherita of Savoy Genoa
(Turin, 1851-Bordighera,
1926) was the first Queen
of Italy from 1878 to 1900.
Daughter of Fer dinand,
Duke of Genoa, the second
son of V ictor Emmanuel II,
and Elisabeth of Saxony ,
she married her cousin, the
hereditary prince Humbert,
later King of Italy (Humbert
I) in Turin on 22 April 1868.
In 1869, she became the
mother of Victor Emmanuel,
future King of Italy.
carlo Neri (2005) and, between Cascina Cernuschi
and the Valle dei Sospiri, the La voliera per Umani
installation by Giuliano Mauri (2 006).
The building of the greatest arc hitectural and
historic portent in the park, preceding its creation,
is Villa Reale, constructed b etween 1777 and 1780
Humbert I and the Regicide
Humbert of Savoy was born in T urin on
14 March 1844. He succeeded his father
with the name of Humbert I in 1878. After
two failed attempts, the first by Giovanni
Passannante in Naples in 1878 and
the second by Pietro Acciarito in Rome
in 1897, he was assassinated in Monza
on 29 July 1900 by the anarchist Gaetano
Bresci, who wanted
to avenge the repression
of the popular uprisings in
1898. The king and queen
had arrived in Monza for a
holiday on 21 July. On 29,
Humbert was asked to
honour the closing ceremony
of the athletic competition
organised by the
Forti e Liberi sports association
with his presence.
Around 10.30pm, the
sovereign was leaving the pavilion where
the event had been held in an open carriage
and without the protective steel
mail he usually wore beneath his waistcoat
because of the heat, to the applause
of the crowd and with the band
playing the royal march. Gaetano Bresci
leapt forward holding a pistol and fired
three shots in rapid succession.
Humbert was hit
in a shoulder, lung and
heart and died soon afterwards.
He was buried in
the Pantheon (Rome).
Bresci was tried on 29 August
and sentenced to life
imprisonment. He was
closed in the prison of
Santo Stefano where he
was found hanged in his
cell in May 1901.
Monza and its province
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