Editing Victor Emmanuel III (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:San Remo023.jpg|250px|thumb|Busts of King Victor Emmanuel III and Queen Elena; forecourt of the Russian Orthodox Church of Christ the Saviour, St. Catherine and St. Seraph, [[Sanremo]], Italy]]

The abdication prior to the referendum probably brought back to the minds of undecided voters the monarchy's role during the Fascist period and the King's own actions (or lack of them), at the very moment monarchists hoped voters would focus on the positive impression created by Umberto and his wife, [[Marie-José of Belgium|Maria José]], over the previous two years. The "May" King and Queen, Umberto and Maria José, in Umberto's brief, month-long reign, were unable to shift the burden of recent history and opinion.

Victor Emmanuel III was one of the most prolific [[coin collectors]] of all time, having amassed approximately 100,000 specimens dating from the fall of the Roman Empire up to the Unification of Italy and in 1897 becoming honorary president of the new [[Italian Numismatic Society]], of which he was a founding member. On his abdication, the collection was donated to the Italian people, except for the coins of the House of Savoy which he took with him to Egypt. On the death of [[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]] in 1983, the Savoy coins joined the rest of the collection in the [[Museo Nazionale Romano|National Museum of Rome]]. Between 1910 and 1943, Victor Emmanuel wrote the 20-volume ''Corpus Nummorum Italicorum,'' which catalogued each specimen in his collection.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.muenzgeschichte.ch/downloads/collectors-vittorioemanuele.pdf |title=Great Collections – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy |publisher=Muenzgeschicte.ch |access-date=16 September 2013 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195457/http://www.muenzgeschichte.ch/downloads/collectors-vittorioemanuele.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was awarded the [[medal of the Royal Numismatic Society]] in 1904.

After World War I, Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III in Paris was named after him in honour of Italy's alliance in that war, but the king's support of the Axis Powers led the road to be renamed Franklin D. Roosevelt Avenue in 1946 following the end of World War II.<ref>Roland Pozzo di Borgo, ''Les Champs-Élysées: trois siècles d'histoire'', 1997</ref>

In [[Florestano Vancini]]'s film ''[[The Assassination of Matteotti]]'' (1973), Victor Emmanuel is played by Giulio Girola.