 Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi assumed office as Italy's interim Head of State.At about 3 pm on 13 June 1946, Umberto left the Quirinal Palace for the last time with the servants all assembled in the courtyard to see him off and many were in tears.At the Ciampino Airport in Rome, as Umberto boarded the airplane that was to take him to Lisbon, a "carabiniere" grabbed him by the hand and said