Miss Italia in row over war remark

The newly-crowned Miss Italy has been ridiculed for telling the contest judges that she would have liked to have lived through the Second World War.

Alice Sabatani was asked what historical period she would have liked to have experienced during the live television contest.

The 18-year-old drew gasps when she told them that she wished she was alive in 1942, during the height of World War II and the reign of Italy’s dictator, Mussolini.