Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Prince Aimone of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Aosta (given names: Aimone Roberto Margherita Maria Giuseppe Torino; 9 March 1900 29 January 1948) was an Italian prince from the House of Savoy and an officer of the Royal Italian Navy. The second son of Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta he was granted the title Duke of Spoleto on 22 September 1904. He inherited the title Duke of Aosta on 3 March 1942 following the death of his brother Prince Amedeo, in a British prisoner of war camp in Nairobi. On 18 May 1941, he was nominated by his cousin King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy to assume the kingship of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a German puppet state in occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Prince Aimone Roberto Margherita Maria Giuseppe Torino of Savoy-Aosta was born in Turin the second son of Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (eldest son of Amadeus I of Spain and Princess Maria Vittoria) and Princess Hélène of Orléans (daughter of Philippe, comte de Paris and Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans). His great grandfather was King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, making him a member of the House of Savoy.