His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII
CHAPTER XXVI
THE DEATH OF QUEEN VICTORIA--THE KING’S ACCESSION 310
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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The King. From the Painting by Mr. A. Stuart Wortley _Frontispiece_
The King at Homburg xvi
The Christening of King Edward VII. 9
Queen Victoria, the Empress Frederick, and King Edward VII. 11
King Edward VII. 13
King Edward VII. at the Age of Three 15
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
Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. 32
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
The Marriage of the King and Queen 75
A Contemporary Design for the Royal Wedding 78
On the Wedding Day 81
Queen Alexandra at the Time of her Marriage 82
Queen Alexandra in 1863 86
Queen Alexandra in 1864 89
Queen Alexandra with the Baby Prince Albert Victor 91
King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and Prince Albert Victor 93
Queen Victoria with Prince Albert Victor 95
King Edward at the Age of Twenty-Three 99
Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra, and Princess Christian 101
Queen Alexandra about the Year 1865 102
Thanksgiving Day, 1872: The Scene at Temple Bar 132
Thanksgiving Day, 1872: The Procession up Ludgate Hill 134
Queen Alexandra and her Sister, the Empress Alexander of Russia, in 1873 137
Queen Victoria, with the Princes Albert Victor and George, and their sister, Princess Victoria 139
The King’s Indian Tour, 1875 143
Embarkation on Board the _Serapis_ at Brindisi 147
The King’s Visit to the Cawnpore Memorial 153
The King in 1876 157
The King in 1879 161
The King in 1882 164
Queen Alexandra in her Robes as Doctor of Music 169
The Duchess of Fife, Princess Victoria, and Princess Charles of Denmark 175
The Duke of Fife 177
The Duke of Clarence and Avondale 185
Queen Alexandra 193
King Edward and Queen Alexandra, with the Duchess of Fife and Lady Alexandra Duff 201
Queen Victoria and the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York 205
The King in the Undress Uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet 210
The King as Grand Master of the Knights-Hospitallers of Malta, at the Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball 213
The Duke of Cornwall and York in his Robes as a Knight of St. Patrick 215
The Duchess of Cornwall and York 217
The Duke of Connaught, the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg, the German Emperor, King Edward VII., Queen Victoria, and the Empress Frederick 223
The King with the Ladies Duff 229
Sandringham from the Grounds 235
The Norwich Gate at Sandringham 238
The East Front, Sandringham 239
Queen Alexandra’s Dairy at Sandringham 241
Queen Alexandra at Sandringham 245
The Kennels, Sandringham 248
Queen Alexandra with her Favourite Dogs 250
Marlborough House from the South-West 252
Marlborough House: the Drawing-Room 254
Garden Party at Marlborough House, July 1881 257
Marlborough House: the Salon 259
The King as Admiral of the Fleet 269
The King as Colonel of the 10th Hussars 273
The King and the Duke of Connaught 277
Sir Francis Knollys 292
Mr. John Porter and Mr. Richard Marsh, the King’s Past and Present Trainers, and John Watts, his Jockey 296
The Egerton House Training Stables, Newmarket 297
The King’s Derby, 1896 299
The King as a Sportsman in 1876 305
The _Britannia_ 307
The King as a Yachtsman 308