3-053-440 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The King of Italy in Berlin: review of the guards, 1873. 'The visit of King Victor Emmanuel to Vienna and Berlin has been an occasion to congratulate the Italian nation upon this token of a cordial friendship with the rulers of those two powerful monarchies whose subjects include nearly the whole of the great German race...with regard to the King's entertainment at Berlin, when the Emperor William did all that such a grand and generous host could do, with the aid of the Crown Prince and Princess, to make Victor Emmanuel feel himself quite at home among the Germans, it is probable that there was nothing which pleased him better than the review of the Guards' Brigade at Potsdam. This took place on the 24th September, in the esplanade next the Lust-Garten before the Royal palace, a space of not more than two acres, but enough for the mere inspection and "marching past" of four or five thousand troops'. Note the Crown Princess riding side-saddle. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.