The body of one of Italy’s last kings, Victor Emmanuel III, who ruled the country during the two world wars and the advent of fascism, was returned from Egypt early Sunday, greeted by a storm of controversy as some of his descendants decried the decision not to inter him in Rome’s Pantheon.
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