On August 17, 1869, Carlo, accompanied by his three confidants—Jioti, Carmen Esposito, and Drew Rosso—as well as dozens of servants, cooks, tailors, and doctors personally selected by his father, Vittorio Emanuele II, and a royal guard of about 500 men, boarded a ship bound for Spain.
Carlo was quite satisfied with the palace guard his father had entrusted to him. At Carlo's insistence, most of the soldiers in this palace guard had participated in the Italian unification wars, and many of them had even served under Garibaldi.
The fighting capacity of these soldiers is guaranteed, and with Giovanni Garibaldi's second son, Jyoti, in command, their loyalty is also assured.
Furthermore, the families of these soldiers would accompany Carlo to Spain, which was another way to ensure their loya
