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 She is the first Italian princess to be born with succession rights that could not be superseded by the birth of a younger brother.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

Residences

TBA

Sartorial Information

Tiara Collection

TBA

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