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Vittorio Emanuele II died in 1878, he wasn’t sixty years old yet. He was a great and beloved king, right for his sanguineous temper, his resolute manners, his impatience for the etiquette. The country he contributed to establish was now in mourning.
There are many anecdotes about the style and manners of such a popular and audacious (on the battlefield as well as with political choices) constitutional monarch. Around 1850 he was in his official visit in London, guest of Queen Victoria. It took blood-and-guts efforts for the collaborators and [Read more...]
Vittorio Emanuele II died in 1878, he wasn’t sixty years old yet. He was a great and beloved king, right for his sanguineous temper, his resolute manners, his impatience for the etiquette. The country he contributed to establish was now in mourning.
There are many anecdotes about the style and manners of such a popular and audacious (on the battlefield as well as with political choices) constitutional monarch. Around 1850 he was in his official visit in London, guest of Queen Victoria. It took blood-and-guts efforts for the collaborators and diplomats to convince the king to shorten his spiked, enormous and wild moustache. And yet, as he was sitting in conversation with the Queen, he was pleasantly asked what he did see and like in London. His answer: “Lady Hamilton”. Rude, hot-blooded and rough: so was Vittorio Emanuele II.
The “Bella Roslin” (Rosa Vercellana), daughter of a coachman of Carlo Alberto, was among many the true woman of his life, sharing the everyday intimacies and confidences. It was true love, against all hostilities of the surroundings of the king. This analphabetic farmer was taken to Stupinigi to attend to special training as a lady-in-waiting. Entitled with Countess of Mirafiori, she became his wife in a morganatic marriage, that is, excluding any succession to the throne.
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