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Prince Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, the grandson of Umberto II, the last reigning king of Italy, who was deposed in 1946 when the country became a republic, is running a catering business called Prince of Venice.
20/07/2016
Prince Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia has launched a food truck business
Called Prince of Venice, it will sell fresh pasta from the roadside in LA
Dishes on offer include truffle linguine and trofie al pesto, but not pizza
The heir to the now defunct Italian throne has made selling gourmet pasta from a food truck in Los Angeles a crowning achievement.
The emphasis, the Prince, 44, said, is on quality ingredients, with the dishes available including truffle linguine for $16 and seafood fettuccine costing $15.
Charmed life of an exiled prince: Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy attends the 14th Annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival in 2009 and (right) competes in the modern pentathlon in Monaco in 2001
The Prince said: ‘I wanted to create a gourmet, fresh-pasta Italian food truck with authentic recipes matched by equally high-quality ingredients'
According to the Prince of Venice website, some ingredients the road truck will sell, such as flour, olive oil and truffles, will be sourced from Italy, but quite a few from California – cage-free eggs and free-range meat
Last King and Queen of Italy: Umberto II of Italy (pictured left with his wife, Princess Marie-Jose of Belgium) was exiled in 1946 - Prince Emanuele did not return to Italy until 2003
The truck will also sell spaghetti carbonara, creste alla papalina and trofie al pesto from the roadside.
The Prince said: 'I wanted to create a gourmet, fresh-pasta Italian food truck with authentic recipes matched by equally high-quality ingredients.