3-021-666 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Royal Marriage in Italy: regatta on the Arno, at Florence, 1868. View of the '...festivities which took place...at Florence, upon the arrival of the Crown Prince Humbert of Italy with Princess Margaret, his newly-married bride...The streets and squares were decorated with flags and garlands of flowers; the crowd was very great, and expressed its sympathy, not by cheering in the English fashion, but rather by clapping of hands...one of the chief features was a regatta on the river Arno'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.