Buon Compleanno Italia' ('Happy Birthday Italy') On March 17th 1861 the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy took place, Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoy was the king, and the Statuto Albertino was the Constitution: on that day, at the Palazzo Carignano, which was then the Parliament headquarters in Turin, there was the inaugural session of the 'Kingdom of Italy' and Vittorio Emanuele II gave his first speech as King of Italy. Only two years earlier, in front of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia, King Vittorio Emanuele had spoken the famous words "we are not insensitive to the cry of pain which rises towards us from many parts of Italy" which had initiated the final unification process. As of March 17th 1861 the Kingdom of Italy had included all the regions of the Peninsula except Veneto (annexed in 1866), Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia (annexed after World War I) and Lazio (annexed after 1870). Only a year earlier, in 1860, Nice, the city of Giuseppe Garibaldi, was given to France, causing profound grief to the "hero of the two worlds". The Kingdom of Italy had a somewhat frail structure, even though the king stated in his speech that the rapid success with which the unification had been attained "contributing in giving the Nation a great confidence in its own destiny". The Savoy monarchy had guided the unification process, though the true director was the Prime Minister, Camillo Benso Count of Cavour, who will die a few months after the proclamation of the kingdom, after having stated the need to move the capital to Rome as it is "the only city in Italy to have a non-provincial history". His wishes will be fulfilled only ten years later: in 1865 the capital was moved to Florence, causing great protests by the Piedmonts, and only in 1871, a few months after Rome was conquered through the 'Breach of Porta Pia', the capital of the Kingdom of Italy was moved to the Eternal City. The Kingdom of Italy lasted until the end of the Second World War; on June 2nd 1946 the Italians were called to decide between the Monarchy and the Republic. The last king of Italy, Umberto II, left for exile shortly after.