Having succeeded in ending his mother's power in Savoy, Victor Amadeus looked to his oncoming marriage with the youngest child of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (brother of Louis XIV) and Henrietta of England.
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In 1697 Victor Amadeus commissioned Le Notre to lay out large gardens at the Palace of Turin where he had previously commissioned the Viennese Daniel Seiter to paint a famous gallery which exists to this day.
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Jacques of Savoy, Duke of Nemours
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From Palermo he bought back Filippo Juvarra, an Italian architect who had spent many years in Rome.
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Taking the style of King Victor Amadeus, he and Anna moved into the château de Chambéry outside the capital.
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The subject of the play is the strange incident in 1730–32 in the Kingdom of Sardinia in which the elderly king, Victor Amadeus II, first abdicated in favour of his son Charles Emmanuel III, and then after months of ever-increasing complaints unexpectedly demanded to be restored.
The mosaic portraying the Madonna is from the 13th century, while the two monuments on the walls, works of the early 18th century, represents King Charles III of Bourbon and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, the latter of which was crowned here with his wife Anne Marie d'Orléans in December 1713.
Maria Luisa of Savoy (1688–1714), daughter of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia and Anne Marie d'Orléans; queen of Spain as first consort of Philip V of Spain