Italy's Top Clubs Ask Disgraced Prince To Resign
Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Staff Writer Rome, Italy (AHN) - An Italian newspaper on Wednesday reported that two of the elite clubs in Rome have asked Prince Victor Emmanuel to resign from their membership. The call for resignations follow Prince's arrest on suspicion of providing prostitutes and illegal slot machines to a casino. Daily paper Il Messagero said members of Rome's Chess Circle had voted to oust the disgraced son of Italy's last king. The paper said the club's president had invited the prince to resign to avoid the embarrassment of being expelled, adding that the Hunting Circle, which only members of the aristocracy can join, was prepared to do the same. Both were said to be particularly shocked by the language the prince used in intercepted telephone conversations. Victor Emmanuel, heir to one of Europe's oldest dynasties, was arrested earlier this month and has confessed to some of the allegations of organized crime made against him. On Tuesday his son, Emmanuel Philibert, attempted to distance himself from the prince. "I do not agree with everything my father has done," Philibert told the Italian daily La Repubblica. "Each one of us is different. That happens between parents and children, it's normal. But I am not here to judge my father. I must think of his health and hope this affair ends quickly."
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