Return of Exiled Royals Marred by Scuffles
Scuffles outside a Naples cathedral forced the heir to Italy’s throne to cancel plans to attend a Mass there on his first visit to the city after 57 years in exile.
Supporters of the exiled Savoy royal family scuffled with backers of a rival dynasty, the Bourbons, who ruled what was then the Kingdom of Naples until the 19th century.
Victor Emmanuel, 65, son of Italy’s last king, his wife, and their son are on a three-day visit to Naples, their first long stay in Italy since Parliament last year lifted a ban on the presence of male Savoy heirs, imposed for the monarch’s collaboration with Mussolini in World War II.
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