More than a million people have reserved places to see the Turin Shroud when it goes on public display this spring for the first time in 10 years.

ITALY’S former royal family got a mixed reception over the weekend on a return visit to the nation they once reigned, with a few hundred protesters booing them and others scuffling with pro-monarchists.

The descendants of Italy’s last king today said they were overjoyed at the prospect of returning to their homeland following the failure of a petition that would have kept them in exile.

The Italian parliament today gave final approval to lifting a constitutional ban that kept the male descendants of Italy’s last king out of their homeland, paving a way for their return after 56 years of exile.