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Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia is the last heir to the throne of Italy. He and his family were exiled in 1946 and were unable to return for the next 56 years. He has been the center of many... upsets. The most recent were the charges of criminal association, extortion, exploitation of prostitution and various other pleasures, of which he was later acquitted. But in Netflix's latest contribution to the growing ranks of true crime documentaries, The King Who Never Was, the filmmakers zero in on the scandal that really made him famous: his 1978 arrest for the murder of Dirk Hamer, of 19-year-old, and the 38-year-old later campaigning for Hamer's sister, Birgit, to get some answers. In the summer of 1978, Birgit and her brother joined a group of glamorous young Italian friends on a trip to Cavallo, a French island near Corsica and the Savoy family's playground. “We weren't few or quiet,” says one of the friends now, still glamorous in middle age and still incredulous how the f...