Umberto II of Italy to serve the new republic. The monarchy of the House of Savoy formally ended on 12 June 1946, and Umberto left the country. Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi assumed office as Italy's interim Head of State. Umberto and Marie José separated in exile; it had been an arranged marriage of state, following a long tradition of royal families. However, they never divorced, partly for political reasons. Some academics have explored Umberto's possible homosexuality. As early as the 1920s, Mussolini had collected a dossier on his private life for purposes of blackmail. Certainly during the war, newspapers asserted that Umberto was
Anthony May and Guildenstern are Dead", "The Launderette", "A Last Belch for the Great Auk" and "The Nuns", which he also directed at the Roundhouse. He was the voice of the King of the Dead in "". In 2011 he played Bootstrap Bill in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" video game, Thompson in the "Tin Tin" video game and Dickson in "Xenoblade Chronicles". He recently played the Queen Elizabeth Hall reading the poetry of Rumi, and appeared as a nobleman in the 2014 fantasy film "Maleficent" starring Angelina Jolie. Anthony May Anthony May (born 23 May 1946) is an English stage, television