The Late King Vittorio Emanuele
Cavaliere Negri, at Casale-Monferrato, told me not long since that when he was a child, during the troubles of 1848 and 1849, the King was lunching with his (Cav. Negri’s) father who had provided the best possible luncheon in honour of his guest. The King said:
“I can eat no such luncheon in times like these—give me some garlic.”
The garlic being brought, he ate it along with a great hunch of bread, but would touch nothing else.