In a few words, the incredulous painter from Dumenza, immigrated to France, was asked frankly to bring "that which he had to show" to Buckingham Palace. King George V and the Queen Mary, graciously deigned to receive, in a very private, or rather, secretive manner, the Ambassador together with this small, embarrassing and almost terrified Italian, who, from the famous box from which he never separated, would have extracted what was in it, demonstrating to the royalty, also unbelieving, but curious and at the end with mysteriously dazzling eyes where, in that salon in the Royal Palace, Peruggia exposed his "treasure".
In poche parole fu chiesto senza mezzi termini all'incredulo imbianchino di Dumenza, emigrato in Francia, di portare "quello che aveva da mostrare" a Buckingham Palace. Il re Giorgio V e la regina Mary, graziosamente si degnavano di ricevere in forma strettamente privata, anzi segreta, l'Ambasciatore insieme a questo piccolo, imbarazzatissimo e quasi esterrefatto italiano, che dalla famosa scatola, da cui non si separava mai, avrebbe estratto quello che conteneva, per mostrarlo ai regali e altrettanto increduli, ma incuriositi e alla fine misteriosamente abbagliati occhi. In quel salotto del Palazzo Reale Peruggia espose il suo "tesoro".