OUR NEW KING

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4263, 24 January 1901, Page 6

OUR NEW KING

SKETCH OP HIS CAREER. Thft Queen lias been succeeded by her eldest: son, Albert Edward. ''The supreme executive power of these kingdoms," says an English writer, "is vested in a single person, the King or Queen ; io-- it matters not to which sex the Crown descends: the person entiled to it being immediately invested with nil iho rights and prerogatives of sovereign power." His Majesty tiic King wai born at Buckingham Palace on the 2th November, 1841, and is therefore now in his sixtieth year. He received his early education from tutors; and having studied for a session at Edinburgh, entered Christ Church, Oxford, where he attended tlio public leci lures for a year. Afterwards he resided for three or four terms at Cambridge for the same purpose. Most of the '.summer of 1&60 was spent in a visit re the United States and Canada, and sub- ] sfiuontly 4 he Prince travol'.e-i the : East visiting Je .isa'cm in l--';2. JU I the title of Dv.ko of Cornwal'. h« took his seat in the Honso of Lords in February, 1c.03. Ho married on the 10th March of that year the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, by whom he has issue. Towards the close of 1871 ho was attacked with typhoid fever, and for some weeks his life was despaired of; but lie slowly recovered, and was able to take part in the memorable thanksgiving service, in St. Paul's Cathedral) on the 27th February, 1872. A visit was paid "to India in 1375-76, and ten years later a tour was made through Ireland. His Majesty is a Jrield-Marsiial in tlio Army. He is a Freemason of tho highest position. Art, music and the industries, as well as all social and philanthropic movements, have his sympathy, countenance and personal as-, sistanca. In Great Britain and the colo-,

nit.-, his Majcstr is extremely popular, and he is aha veil liked on the Continent of Europe.

THE Ql -MS" CONSORT

The first peron of the Royal Family, regarded by the laws of England, sup- . poking tlie sovereign to be a King, is ■ (-ays .1 text-book) the Queen; either regent, cohort or dowager ._ *nc o.,een Consort i< the v.-iff of the reigning KiiK'- and is participant, of divers mxother women. She ir a public person, distinct from the King;; and e:iv purc-hc-c and convey lam!*, and do 'other ant* of ownership, without his concurrence. She may take a fi-r.nt from the King, which no other wife iiii from her husband. She has senarau- court-; and offices not only in .matter* of ceremony, but even of law; and her attorney arid solicitor-general are entitled to a place within the bar. She may sue and be sued alone; and rrav hare a, separate property in goods a?? Well as lands, and has a right to dispone of them by will. She had formerly ;-, separate revenue, consisting of certain rents out of the demesne lands of the Crown: and certain ancient pertpiisitcs. The. Queen Consort, is ii subject, yet. in point of the_ security of her life and person, she is on the ".sumo footing with the King, it ii equally treason to compass or imag'.ie her death. If she be accused of any species of treason, she shall be tried by the poors of Parliament, as Ann Boleyn was in 28 Henry VIII. THE ROYAL FAMILY. Alexandra. Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julie, the Queen Consort, is U:e oldest daughter of Christian IX., King of Denmark, and wars horn at Copenhagen on the Ist December, 13-14. and was married at "Windsor on the 10th March, 1863, to Albert Edward, Prince of Wn10.5. now King of England. There have been, six children of the marriage: Albert Victor Christian. Edward, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, born at Frogniore Lodge, near Windsor, on the sth "January, IStSJ.-, died 14th Janua.y, 1892; George Frederick Ernest Albert. Prince of Wales, born at Marlborough! House on the 3rd June, 18G5, marriel I Princess Mary of 'lock, Gth July, 1893; . Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, born . at Marlborough House on the 20th February, 18S7, married 27th .July, ISS'';. to the Duke of Fife ; Victoria Alexandra, . Olra Marie born at Marlborough' House . uii the Gth'July, 1868; Maud Chariot! o ■ Marie Victoria, born at Marlborough i House on the 26th. November, 1860, married 22nd July, 1896, to Charles, second son of the Crown Prince of Den- ■ mark, and Alexander, born on the ilth April, died 7th April, 1871. Her Majesty the Queen Consort proceeded tc : Russia at the time of the death of Alexander 111., and irade a prolonged stay • with her sister the Czarina, with" whom she attended the funeral ceremonies at ; St. Petersburg. She recently visited Denmark, and was in the same carriage as her husband when Sipido shot at him at the railway station, Brussels.