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The Italian flag waves in the background as Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia, son of Italy' s late last king Umberto II, attends a private ceremony at the Memorial of Mignano Montelungo, near Caserta, in the southern region Campania, on Thursday 15 May 2003. The Memorial recalls the first battle of the Italian army, newly allied with Anglo-Americans, against the German Wermacht, in December 1943. Vittorio Emanuele and his family had arrived in Rome earlier on Thursday for their third visit to Italy after a 57-year-long exile of male heirs of the Italian former royal family. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTOANSA/CIRO FUSCO)