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Title: The boyhood of a great king, 1841-1858 : an account of the early years of the life of His Majesty Edward VII
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Broadley, Alexander Meyrick, 1847-1916
Subjects: Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910
Publisher: London and New York : Harper and Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ress and read innumerable letters and despatches, and then went on deck and saw the authorities—the Admirals and Generals. I did Vickys lessons and wrote. The children were left on board, and Her Majesty and the Prince Consort with all their suite embarked on the Fairy for a cruise up the Tamar, going first a little way up the St. Germans river to see Trematon Castle, which, the Queen wrote, belongs to Bertie as Duke of Cornwall. On August 22 a visit to Mount Edgcumbe is made,* where, writes Queen Victoria, we were welcomed by Lady Mount Edgcumbe and her two boys,* Prince Albert going to Dartmoor. The children went with their governess and the other * Lady Mount Edgcumbe, wife of the third Earl of MountEdgcumbe, daughter of Admiral and Lady Elizabeth Fielding, diedNovember i88i. Her two sons were Lord Valletort (now Earl ofMount Edgcumbe), born 1832 (see fast, p. 355.), and the Honble. Colonel C. E. Edgcumbe, born 1838. Lord Valletort, who was fourteen in 1846, succeeded to the title in 1861.
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KING KDWAHD VII. AS A SAILUU, ISIG 7 AFTER A PAINTING BY F. WINTERHALTER. A Trip to Guernsey children into the shade and had luncheon in the house. On September 2 the Queen and the Prince Consort, with their two elder children, once more embarked on board the Victoria and Albert bound for the Channel Islands. Neither the Prince nor his sister landed in Guernsey, but we learn on reliable authority, that Her Majesty was attired in a very plain manner, wearing a white bonnet, lined with pink, a green and white plaid dress, and a scarlet and gold scarf. Her parasol was of mazarine. Her Majesty wore her hair plainand had blended in her countenance an air of affable condescension yet courteous dignity. The Prince was attired in dark coat, dark coloured lavender trousers, and silk waistcoat, varied withgreen flowers. The little Prince of Wales went on deck dressed as a sailor. A glazed hat, a checkshirt, a handkerchief around his collar tied in a sailors knot as a sailor, blue jacket and whitetrousers were

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