[1] Born in Turin, Prince Adalberto was the fourth son of Prince Tommaso, Duke of Genoa (1854–1931), and his wife Princess Isabella of Bavaria (1863–1924).

Prince Adalberto pursued a career in the Royal Italian Army, achieving the rank of General.

He fought in the First World War on the Montello in October 1917, and in Vallagarina in February 1918.

Benito Mussolini used the Prince's secret homosexuality against him to ensure the loyalty of the Prince as well as other LGBT members of the House of Savoy to the Fascist Party.

[2] After the war he lived quietly and mostly anonymously, and settled in a villa on the property of his friend, Gertrud Kiefer von Raffler (the widow of Massimo Olivetti, son of Camillo Olivetti), where he died in 1982.