Knight of the Bath Benito Mussolini and Knight of the Garter Vittorio Emanuele III were gazetted out of their British Orders of Chivalry last week by King George VI, along with other Italian bigwigs, German smallwigs. There were few German bigwigs to be dropped, since most of these were purged from the royal British rolls in 1915 along with Kaiser Wilhelm II.*
Italian King Vittorio Emanuele, who was the Senior Foreign Knight of the Garter and personally stands high in the regard of the British Royal Family, was gazetted out last week with utmost...
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