sentences:  Benito Mussolini, after he occupied Montenegro, annexed to the Kingdom of Italy the area of Kotor (Cattaro), where there was a small Venetian-speaking population, creating the Province of Cattaro inside the Governorate of Dalmatia.The English historian Denis Mack Smith wrote that the Queen of Italy (considered the most influential Montenegrin woman in history) convinced her husband the King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III to impose on Mussolini the creation of an independent Montenegro, against the wishes of the fascist Croats and Albanians (who wanted to enlarge their countries with the Montenegrin territories).Her nephew Prince Michael of Montenegro never accepted the offered crown, pledging loyalty to his nephew King Peter II of Yugoslavia.