Princess Yolanda of Savoy


Princess Yolanda of Savoy was the eldest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.

Life

She was born Principessa Iolanda Margherita Milena Elisabetta Romana Maria di Savoia in Rome, Italy. As a young woman she was a great sportswoman, particularly interested in swimming and riding.
During the Great War, newspapers published reports of her engagement to the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII, who was serving in Italy in 1918. There was no basis for these rumors, but they were resurrected in 1919 when Yolanda joined her mother Elena of Montenegro, sister Princess Mafalda of Savoy, and the Duchess of Aosta on a visit to Paris, where the prince happened to be at the same time.
After her marriage Yolanda lived in the town of Pinerolo, southwest of Turin.
In 1946, Yolanda and her family went into voluntary exile with her father in Alexandria, Egypt. After King Victor Emmanuel's death, Yolanda and her family returned to Italy, where they lived at Castelporziano.
Yolanda died in a hospital in Rome and is buried in Turin.

Marriage and children

On 9 April 1923 at the Quirinal Palace in Rome, she married Giorgio Carlo Calvi, Conte di Bergolo. They had five children:.

Title

National honours