The Once and Future Kingdom

Screengrab of Prince Filiberto's televised address

On Thursday, November 14th, the Pretender to the Italian throne, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, announced the return of the Royal Family to Italy in a live televised address. Despite providing no information on how “The Royal Family is coming back,” the teaser created a brief stir in monarchist circles, prompting texts and phone calls from friends. After doing a little fact-checking, it quickly became apparent the whole thing was an unbecoming publicity stunt to promote either the upcoming second season of The Crown on Netflix or a new line of clothing by Global Intuition called Casa Savoia. Uninterested in either, I stopped looking into the matter.

As unlikely as it may seem today, I do believe we will see a restoration of the monarchy in Italy one day. However, it won’t be the disgraced House of Savoy we see restored, it will be the Royal House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies in a newly independent Regno dell Due Sicilie. [Cue ridicule and scorn.]

For those of us who are traditionally minded, the Bourbons of Naples are anything but a footnote in history, they are a symbol of authority, sovereignty, and justice. They represent a possible future in the face of the present crises that threaten the remnants of our moribund civilization. A return to traditional religious and aristocratic principles, embodied by Their Sicilian Majesties, will be our foundation to confront globalism and the unholy secular worldview currently plaguing our society with wanton materialism and widespread apathy.

Thankfully, Massimo d’Azeglio’s often-quoted proposition that “We have made Italy; now we must make Italians” still rings hollow. After more than 150 years of social engineering and cultural leveling, Italian unification, which suppressed and destroyed, with varying degrees of success, the local history, culture, and identity of the Duosiciliano people, has yet to be completely realized.

We continue to see a gradual awakening as people across the peninsula (Metternich’s famous “geographic expression”) abandon today’s ersatz culture and discover and embrace their true identity (Neapolitan, Venetian, et al.). To be sure, too many are effete and supine, but for us, the growing number of Duosiciliani who have embraced the counter-revolutionary neo-Bourbon cause is what really matters. For the sake of our future, it is important for us to build on these gains.

The South needs to return to its austere roots. This is not some sentimental longing for an idyllic past, but a stratagem for a future based on the immortal principles of spiritual authority (the Church) and temporal power (the Monarchy). With precious little worth safeguarding after unification, Southern Italy needs to diverge from this nihilistic path of modernity with its sterile sybaritic values (as opposed to invigorating spiritual ones) and look to the restoration of its Catholic Monarchy (as opposed to democratic-liberal or Marxist falsehoods) to bring about a well ordered (hierarchical), organic and sovereign state.

Altar and Throne! is our battle cry.

~ Giovanni di Napoli, November 17th, Feast of San Gregorio Taumaturgo