It was a symbolic gesture that did not have a practical outcome. We exchanged some words, and he was happy to be in Turin.
On that occasion, he visited many places in Turin historically linked to his family. Through the Order of the Saints Maurice and Lazarus, the prince provided charitable works in Piedmont that were never ostentatious.
The last time he had been in Piedmont was for the burials of Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena in the basilica of Vicoforte, a choice not shared by him. He told me that he would have liked to listen to one of my lectures.
His illness prevented it. The old Prince Vittorio was very different from the young man I had the opportunity to meet in France near his father Umberto.
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