The wedding is that of the Crown Prince of Italy,
which was marked by some significant incidents. The presence of the Prussian Prince Royal, unconnected as he is by ties of blood with the House of Savoy, at a ceremony that was not otherwise graced by any stranger—in fact, not even by a single Austrian Prince, though the bridegroom's mother was a Hapsburgh — has naturally and correctly been taken as a significant political demonstration of Prussian friendliness. At the same time Victor Emanuel has taken the opportunity of showing his con- ciliatory disposition to really eminent Churchmen by conferring on the Archbishop of Turin the Collar of the Annunziata—an order - of knighthood quite as illustrious as the Garter, strictly limited in number, and every member of which becomes the Sovereign's cousin.
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