Short answers, pulled from the story.
Victor Emmanuel II was born in Palazzo Carignano, Turin on the 14th of March 1820. He entered the world as the eldest son of Carlo Alberto Prince of Carignano and Maria Theresa of Tuscany.
In 1842, Victor Emmanuel married his paternal first cousin Adelaide of Austria who lived from 1822 until 1855. With her, he had eight children including Umberto who later became King of Italy.
The Kingdom of Italy was officially established on the 17th of March 1861 and Victor Emmanuel II became its king. He did not renumber himself after assuming the new royal title and Turin became the capital of the new state.
He captured Rome after the French withdrew following the Prussian victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War and entered Rome on the 20th of September 1870. He set up the new capital there on the 2nd of July 1871 with the Quirinal Palace as the new Royal residence.
Victor Emmanuel II died in 1878 when it was lifted just before his death. He had been excommunicated from the Catholic Church for driving the Pope into Vatican City at Castelfidardo.