ROME—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, where other Italian royals lay. His body was buried Sunday in a family mausoleum in a sanctuary in Vicoforte, near Turin; he had died in 1947, a year after going into exile in Egypt. The remains of the king’s late wife, Queen Elena...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 17, 2017 15:56 UTC