Prince of Piedmont Emmanuel-Philibert of Savoy announced Monday his intention to abdicate in favor of his daughter Vittoria, whom he had with actress Clotilde Courau in 2003. "I'll step aside and let a woman take the reins again, I'm sure she'll do better than me," he said.
The heir to the Italian crown spent a large part of his life in exile: after the proclamation of the Italian Republic in 1946, members of the royal family were banned from entering.