The boyhood of a great king, 1841-1858 - an account of the early years of the life of His Majesty Edward VII (1906) (14782453214)

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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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we were to drink the Queensand the Princes health as a house-warming, andafter it the Prince said very simply and seriously : We have a psalm in Germany for such occasions,and then quoted it. It was to bless our goingout and coming in, our daily bread and all we do ;bless us to a blessed dying, and make us heirs ofheaven. It was dry and quaint, being Luthers. Early in September Queen Adelaide had takenup her abode at Cassiobury, near Watford, theancient and picturesque seat of the Earls of Essex,since famous as the aboriginal home of croquet.The then owner had a weakness for picnic parties,and was even credited with the forethought ofproviding excursionists with the necessary plate.Cassiobury was a show place, full of all sorts ofrelics of the past, including amongst other treasuresthe handkerchief which Lord Coningsby appliedto the wounded shoulder of King William III. at • Life of the Prince G^nsort, vol. i. p. 339.t V.R.I. p. 173. X The Queen in the Isle of Wight, 1898, p. 8.194
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Queen Victoria at Cassiobury the battle of the Boyne, and a large series of dramaticminiatures and valuable pictures. In the groundswere two enormous granite cannon balls which hadbeen fired from the Castle of Abydos, at the entranceof the Dardanelles into the Endymion frigate in1807. Beneath one of them is the following in-scription : These shots of granite, from the ruinsof Alexandria, were fired from the Castle of Abydos,on the Asiatic side of the entrance of the Straitsof the Dardanelles into the Endymion frigate,commanded by the Honble. Captain Bladen Capel,when the Squadron under the command of Sir JohnDuckworth entered the Straits in the year 1807.The larger shot weighs upwards of seven cwt., andwas fired at the distance of a quarter of a mile ;the losses, killed and wounded, 15 men. After the return of the Court to Windsor it wasdecided that the Queen and Prince Albert shouldpay a visit to Queen Adelaide at Cassiobury andLord Salisbury at Hatfield. Rumours of greatdoings at Wi