The remains of Victor Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy and Prince of Naples, who died last February 3 in Geneva, were buried on Monday, in a strictly private form, inside the royal crypt of the basilica of Superga, in Turin, next to those of King Charles Albert. The announcement was made by his son Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont and Prince of Venice, who anticipated that a celebration of suffrage will be organized in Superga "soon" and thanked "the institutions that made it possible to respect the last wishes of the late prince regarding his burial according to the tradition of the House of Savoy, and those who, in recent months, have participated in the pain and mourning of the royal family." A request for burial in Superga that had been made by the Savoy family on February 10, at the end of the funeral that had been held in Turin. "We still need permission from the Superintendence, the basilica is certainly not just any place. These are the classic Italian bureaucratic technical times," explained his son Emanuele, at the end of the cremation of his father's remains in Biella. After almost six months, and a first "no" came from the Superintendence who had asked the family "to create a sepulchre on the surface that does not alter the context," the remains are now in the Basilica of Superga. There were those who had seen in the Superintendence's "no" also a distancing from the prince, a life spent between scandals and controversies that were not exactly "royal".
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