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Read Ebook: His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII by Lowndes Marie Belloc
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AN APPRECIATION 1
BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS 5
THE KING'S BOYHOOD 22
OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE, AND THE CURRAGH 34
THE KING'S VISIT TO CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES 43
DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT--TOUR IN THE EAST 55
THE WEDDING OF KING EDWARD AND QUEEN ALEXANDRA 63
EARLY MARRIED LIFE 83
THEIR MAJESTIES' TOUR IN EGYPT AND THE MEDITERRANEAN 103
THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR--THE KING'S ILLNESS 125
THE KING'S TOUR IN INDIA 143
QUIET YEARS OF PUBLIC WORK, 1876-1887--VISIT TO IRELAND--QUEEN VICTORIA'S GOLDEN JUBILEE 159
SILVER WEDDING OF KING EDWARD AND QUEEN ALEXANDRA--ENGAGEMENT AND MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS LOUISE 171
THE BACCARAT CASE--BIRTH OF LADY ALEXANDRA DUFF--THE KING'S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY--ILLNESS OF PRINCE GEORGE 179
THE DUKE OF CLARENCE AND AVONDALE 184
THE HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES--MARRIAGE OF PRINCE GEORGE--THE DIAMOND JUBILEE--DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF TECK 200
LATER YEARS--A SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO THE KING--GRADUAL RECOVERY--THE ATTEMPT ON THE KING'S LIFE 220
THE KING AS A COUNTRY SQUIRE 235
THE KING IN LONDON 251
THE KING AND STATE POLICY 262
THE KING AND THE SERVICES 268
THE KING AND FREEMASONRY 279
THE KING AS A PHILANTHROPIST 287
THE KING AS A SPORTSMAN 296
THE DEATH OF QUEEN VICTORIA--THE KING'S ACCESSION 310
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The King at Homburg xvi
The King in 1847 17
The Landing of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their Children at Aberdeen 19
The King and the Empress Frederick as Children 21
The Rev. Henry Mildred Birch, the King's First Tutor 25
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their Children 27
The King at the Age of Eight, and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at the Age of Five 29
Sketching at Loch Laggan--Queen Victoria with King Edward and the Empress Frederick 31
The King in 1859 35
Christ Church, Oxford 38
Trinity College, Cambridge 39
The King in 1861 41
The Tour in Canada and the United States, 1860 43
The Fifth Duke of Newcastle, K.G. 44
The King's Landing at Montreal 46
The King laying the Last Stone of the Victoria Bridge over the St. Lawrence 47
The Grand Ball given at the Academy of Music, New York 52
Dean Stanley 58
The King's Reception by Said Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, at Cairo 59
The King about the Time of his Marriage 62
Queen Alexandra 65
The King on Coming of Age 67
Queen Alexandra in 1863 69
Queen Alexandra 71
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