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HE DUC D'AOSTA, who has recently been visiting this country, has, although but a young man, experienced many changes and vicissitudes of fortune. He is the nephew of the King of Italy, and stands next to his cousin, the Prince of Naples, in the order of succession to the throne. His father was the late Prince Amadeus, King Humbert's brother, and his mother the beautiful Princess Maria. His own name is Emmanuel, after his grandfather. At the age of two he was taken to Madrid, on the election of Prince Amadeus, his father, as King of Spain; but the Duc de Pouilles, which was then the baby's title, occupied the position of Heir Apparent to the Spanish throne only two years, until the abdication of his father in 1873. Prince Emmanuel is a captain of Artillery and an officer of the highest promise.