. The liberation of Italy, 1815-1870. eories. It is impossible notto compassionate the poor young wife who now foundherself Queen of a people which hated her race, afterhaving lived since her marriage the most dreary of livesat the dismallest court in Europe. At first, as a bride,she seemed to have a desire to break through the frozenetiquette which surrounded her; it is told how she oncebegged and prayed her husband to take her for a walkunder the Porticoes of Turin, which she had looked atonly from the outside. The young couple enjoyed theirairing, but when it reached Charles Alberts ears, h
. The liberation of Italy, 1815-1870. eories. It is impossible notto compassionate the poor young wife who now foundherself Queen of a people which hated her race, afterhaving lived since her marriage the most dreary of livesat the dismallest court in Europe. At first, as a bride,she seemed to have a desire to break through the frozenetiquette which surrounded her; it is told how she oncebegged and prayed her husband to take her for a walkunder the Porticoes of Turin, which she had looked atonly from the outside. The young couple enjoyed theirairing, but when it reached Charles Alberts ears, heordered his son to be immediately placed under militaryarrest. The chilling formalism which invaded even theprivate life of these royal personages, shutting the door to good comradeship even between husband and wife, mayhave had much to do with driving Victor Emmanuel fromthe side of the Princess, whom, nevertheless, he loved andvenerated, to unworthy pleasures, the habit of indulgencein which is far easier to contract than to :M-:^a^,M^ui.^. Itinif Victor ^TrvmoMM^. * yattends mon Astr6 167 The Kings address at this time was not conciliatory,and, indeed, it never lost a bluntness which later harmon-ised well enough with the reputation he gained forsoldierly integrity, but which then passed for aristocratichaughtiness. His personal friends were said to belong tothe aristocratic or even the reactionary party. In theperplexities which encompassed him, he could not reckonon the encouragement of any consensus of good opinionor confidence. He was simply an unknown man, againstwhom there was a good deal of prejudice. Radetsky did not refuse to treat with Charles Albert,as has been sometimes said, but the intolerably onerousterms first proposed by him showed that he wished toforce the abdication which Charles Albert had alwayscontemplated in the event of new reverses of was favourably disposed to the young Dukeof Savoy, as far as his personal feeling was conce
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