Victoria, Queen of Italy

HM The Queen of Italy
Titles	Queen of Italy Queen of Sardinia
Reign	3 Feb 2024 - present
Coronation	28 October 2024
Predecessor	Victor Emmanuel IV
Heir	Umberto, Prince of Piedmont
Biographical Information
Born	12 November 1985 (age 39) Rome, Roman States, Italy
Spouse	Prince Otto Heinrich of Hanover (m. 2012)
Issue	Umberto, Prince of Piedmont Princess Felicitas Princess Giovanna Princess Isabella
Name	Victoria Elena Margarita Anne
House	Savoy
Father	King Victor Emmanuel IV of Italy
Mother	Princess Irina of Romania
Religion	Roman Catholic

Victoria, Queen of Italy (born Victoria, Princess of Piedmont on 12 November 1985) is the current reigning Queen of Italy. She is also a member of the Romanian Royal Family as the niece of Margareta, Queen of Romania and the Hanoverian Royal Family as the niece-in-law of Ernest Augustus V, King of Hanover.

Life

Victoria was born the eldest child of King Victor Emmanuel IV of Italy and Princess Irina of Romania. She is the first Italian princess to be born with succession rights that could not be superseded by the birth of a younger brother.

Victoria ascended the throne as the first Queen regnant of Italy upon her father's death in 2024.

Marriage and Issue

On 16 June 2012, Victoria married Prince Otto Heinrich of Hanover in Rome. Victoria and Otto Heinrich have four children, Umberto, Felicitas, Giovanna, and Isabella.

Photo	Name	Birth	Death	Marriage
	Umberto, Prince of Piedmont	1 December 2013
	Princess Felicitas	20 June 2015
	Princess Giovanna	12 February 2020
	Princess Isabella	19 October 2023

Residences

• 
  Quirinale Palace; Main Residence (March-May; September-November)
• 
  Royal Palace of Turin; Winter Residence (December-February)
• 
  Palazzo Stupinigi; Summer Residence (June-August)
• 
  Marienburg Castle; Summer Residence (June-August)

Sartorial Information

Tiara Collection

As Queen, Victoria has access to the entirety of the Italian Tiara Collection. Below are the tiaras that she personally owns.

• 
  (2001) Diamond and Pearl Tiara; 16th birthday gift from her parents
• 
  (2012) Garrard Scroll Tiara; Wedding gift from the King and Queen of Hanover
• 
  (2012) Diamond Loop Tiara; Wedding gift from her parents

Clothing Collection

Clothing Collection

Titles and Honours

• 1985-2012 Victoria, Princess of Piedmont
• 2021-2024 Victoria, Princess of Piedmont, Duchess of Savoy
• 2024-present Victoria, Queen of Italy

National Honours

Order of the Most Holy Annunciation (2012)

Order of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus (2024)

Order of the Crown (2003)

Order of the Star of Italy (2024)

Foreign Honours

Royal Guelphic Order (2012) (Hanover)

Ancestry

Parents	Grandparents	Great-Grandparents	Great-Great-Grandparents
King Victor Emmanuel IV of Italy	King Umberto II of Italy Princess Marie Jose of Belgium	King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy Princess Elena of Montenegro King Albert of Belgium Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria	King Umberto I of Italy Princess Margherita of Genoa King Nicholas I of Montenegro Milena Vukotic Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders Princess Marie of Hohenzollern Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria Infanta Maria Jose of Portugal
Princess Irina of Romania	King Michael of Romania Princess Anne of Parma	King Carol II of Romania Princess Helen of Greece Prince Rene of Parma Princess Margaret of Denmark	King Ferdinand of Romania Princess Marie of Edinburgh King Constantine I of Greece Princess Sophia of Prussia Duke Robert I of Parma Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal Prince Valdemar of Denmark Princess Marie d'Chartres

Lines of Succession

Victoria, Queen of Italy House of Savoy Born: 12 November 1985
Lines of Succession
Preceded by	Succession to the Italian throne	Followed by
Incumbent preceded by Victor Emmanuel IV	Incumbent	Umberto, Prince of Piedmont
Preceded by	Succession to the Romanian throne	Followed by
Princess Maria Clothilde of Savoy	24th in the line of succession	Umberto, Prince of Piedmont