‘The monarchies in front of Hitler’: the crowns of Europe in the face of the dictatorship

At the end of the Great War, facing the massacre of 20 million dead, the monarchs are designated as the big culprits of this butcher’s shop. Moreover, The German Empire. Meanwhile. Consequently, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapse, and the sovereigns who remain fear for their place, as much as they fear an extension of Russian communism. Moreover, Faced with peoples increasingly unfavorable to the maintenance of monarchies. Similarly, Many kings, queens and heirs must deal with the political figures of their time.

This is how the Hitlerian and fascist threat is first perceived by some as a boon for a renewed popularity. From 1922, the King of Italy, Victor-Emmanuel III, opened the door to black shirts. He will ‘the monarchies front hitler’: crowns new also marry his daughter, Princess Mafalda of Savoy to a German prince near Hitler. An opportunistic alliance. whose gravity he does ‘the monarchies front hitler’: crowns not measure “Obviously there is still a tense hand. because the king, at the beginning, needs Mussolini and he is not against his policy. The crown, anyway, will remain. Governments will pass as they have always passed”comments the great-grandson of the latter, Prince Emmanuel-Philibert de Savoie.

Even in England. faced with the fear of communism. the arrival of Mussolini is not necessarily seen with a bad eye: “There were people on the right who thought it was a good thing that the king of Italy authorized Mussolini in power. There were also people in the British royal family. Not the king and the queen, but other members of the royal family. […] And the key to seeing the way Mussolini was perceived in ‘the monarchies front hitler’: crowns new Great Britain is that he was the. person who saved Italy from communism.. that is the reason why they were not as unpopular, as we ‘the monarchies front hitler’: crowns could have imagined “, Adds the historian Andrew Roberts.