THE NEW KING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11950, 25 January 1901, Page 6

THE NEW KING.

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But, however this question should be resolved, tlio Prince, urged Baron Stockmar, should early be taught that thrones and sooial order lvavo a stable foundation in tho moral and intellectual faculties of man. The Prince's other tutors, in addition to Mr Birch, were Mr Gibbs, barrister-at-law, tho Rev. C. F. Tarvcr, and Mr H. W. Fisher. The Prince studied for a session at Edinburgh; entered Christ Church, Oxford, where ho attended (.he public lectures for a year; and afterwards resided for three or four terms at Cambridge for the same purpose. He spent most of tho summer of lt6o in a visit to the United Slates, and Canada, where he was most enthusiastically received. Ho was in 1853 gazetted to acolonecy in tho nrmy, and joined the camp at tho Curragli in Juuo, lt6l. Accompanied by Dean Stanley the Prince travelled in the East, and visited Jerusalem in 1C62.

As Duke of Cornwall the Prince took his seat in (lie House of Lords in 1863. The same year ho was married to the Princess Alexandra, eldest daughter of the King of Denmark. The Prince tad met bis futuro wife when staying with the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia at Heidelberg in tin autumn of 1861. The marriage took place at St. Oleorge's Chapel, Windsor, on March 10, 1T63, with elaborate ceremonial. Her Majesty the Q.ueen was present in tho Koyal Closet, though arrayed in widow's weeds, and taking no part in tho brilliant gathering. , The sweetness of disposition of the Princess of Wales, her kindness of heart and her. over-present consideration for tho feelings of others have ender.rcd her to Use English people. 'The marriage was a very popular one .with the future. Subjects of the Prince, and their love for tho young; Princess, who came a stranger amongst them, has increased as the years have gone. On his marriage, his Highness was granted an income of £',0,00(1Ipcr annum, exclusive of the revenues of tho Duchy, this sum making an aggregate of about 3100.000 a year. .At the same time lie relinquished his right to the succession of the throne of Saxe-Uoburg and Rotha in favour of his younger brothers. The Princess was voted by the House of Commons an annual allowance of £10,000, nml £30,000 in tho event of her surviving the Prince. Within two months of his marriage tho Princo made bis first appearance as a publio speaker at the Royal Academy dinner. His reception was most enthusiastic, not only on his own account, but, as several of the speakers said, because they wished to offer their lieartrdt congratulations to his Royal Highness on his marrhgc with p. Princes who had made so deep an impression on the hearts of tho people. This occasion was of added interest from the fact that one of tho speakers Was Mr Thackeray, whose career was so soon to be cut short by death.'

The Frince. who has always'led a busy li/e, became, president of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1867. Towards the close of the year 1671 the Princo was attacked with typhoid fever, and for some weeks his life was despaired of. His illness cvok«d a spontaneous outburst of publio feeling which showed the depth, of tho feeling -!or the' Queen and her family of her loyal subject!. The Prince slowly recovered, and was abk) to take part in tho memorable- "Thanksgiving Service" in St. Paul's.Cathedral on Fsbruarv 27,1872. Ho was elected Grand Master of Freemasons in England in succession to the Marquis of Ripon in 1874-.

Tho interest takon by tho Princo in tho Paris Exhibition of 1878 contributed in no small, degroo to its success. He attended the Court festivities held at Berlin iu 1883 to colobrate the silver wedding oHhe Crown Princo with the Princess Royal of England; On. this occasion he was nominated by th'o Emperor &3 a Field-marshal in tho Gorman Army. la 1885 tlie Prince, in company with the Prinecw, mads a tour through Ireland. In 1689 tlie Prince, with the. Princess and their sons, visited tlie Paris Exhibition; and in October cf the tame year ho, was present at tho wedding of tho Duko of Sparta at Athens. In May, 1381, his Royal Highness was made a grandfather by tho bivlh of the Duches3 of Fife's daughter. Ho was appointed ■•» member of the Poor Law Commission in iB9S, *r.d attended its sittings with great assiduity. In the summer of this year and in 189*1- the Prince raced his yacht, the Britannia, in most ; the chief- regattas round the coast, and secured many victories. Ho was present, in ■ April, 1894, at the wedding of Princess Vic-, j toria Molita, at Coburg, aud, with the Prin- ! cess of Wales, attended tho mairij.gc of tho ! , late Czar's daughter at St. Petersburg. In ! July, 1894, as in the Jubilee year, the Prince j and Princess were present at '.he Welsh ( Eisteddfodd, on which occasion tho Prinoai* j was admitted a bard. During tlw autumn, j of 1884 the. Princo, tho Princess, and the Duke g of York hastened to join tho Hussion Im- i perial family at the time of the death of tho , late Czar, and tho Prince, by his courtoaus at- ■ ; tcnlian to Russian etiquette and censtaut et- I tendance nt tho prolonged funeral ceremonies, | won the allection of tho Russians to ' a ■! marked degree. His Royal JrJitdinew , has takon a great personal interest | in all tie exhibitions recently he'd at South : Kensington, and was Executive President of tho Oolouißl and Indian Exhibition, opened l by the Queen in May, IEG 6. He also ongi- ' noted the Royal College of Music, and was ; tho chief mover in tho Jubilee cch»me of an Imperial Institute, which, after some opposition, he at last succeeded in establishing m [ 1G93. In 1883 tlie Prince and Princess cele- | braled their silver wedding. , \ The King gavo a personal pen picture of- f himself in' an entry signed by him in an \ album in which the Duchess of Fife ha 3 kept Jj a record of the personal opinions, tastes, aud | impressions of nearly every member nf the .; English Royal family. " Likes and Dislikes is the title of one section of the album, and S this is what the Prince wrote:—"l am hap- | picst when I have no public engagements to t fulfil; when I can smoke a really good cijar s and read (must I confess it?) a good novel S on tho quiet: whon I can, like plain Mr | Junes, go to a race meetiug without, being | chronicled in the papers next day that ' His f Royal Highnoss the Princ* of Wales.has taken l to gambling very seriously, and yesterday lost f moro money than ever he can afford to pay'; f when I can shake hands with and talk to Sir f Edward Clarke without it boing rumoured" | that tho Princo of Wales is violently opposed t to the present war; when I can spend a quiet j; evening at homo with the Princess and my | family. lam unhappiest when I have a rag- f iug toothache, and havo to attend some sccinl | function whero I must 6mile as pleasantly as | though I never had a pain in my life." j Queen Alexandra Caroline Atarie Charlotte j Louise Julie is tho daughter of Chris- < tian IX, King of Denmark, and , was bom at Copcnhageii, December 1, 1644, and ; was marriod nt Windsor, on March 10, 1563,. ; to his Royal Highness Albert Edward Princo '. of Wales, and has had fivo children: Alborfc. . Victor Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence | and Avondale, born at Frogmoro Lodge, near !• Windsor, January 8, IS6I, died January, ' 1T92; George Frederick Ernest Albert, born ; at Marlborough House, June 3, 1?65, married ' Princess Mary of Teck, July, 1893; Louiso Victoria Alexandra Dagmar (Duchess of Fife), born at Marlborough House, February 20, 1F67 Victoria Alexander Olga Mario, born at Marlborough Hou6c, July 6, 1?63; Maud ■ Charlotte Mario Victoria, born nt Marl- ' borough House, November 26, 1863. Her' : Royal Highness has during the last year or ; two been kept much but of society by ill- > health. j

Tho title of the Prince of Wales is not inlierilcd, though thoro is little doubt hut that it will l)o conferred upon the King's son, the Duke of York. It will not descend to him as a matter of courso, but it lias been so long associated with tho hair apparent that there can he no hesitation in continuing an arrangement which, first conceived as a compliment to the Welsh people, hue now become a tradition of t.ho British nation. Tho eldest son of the Soveroign is by inheritance Duko of Cornwall, a title first conferred in 1337 on the Black Prince. The title of the Karl of Chester, borne by Edward 111 before his accession to Uio throno, has since been given along with the priuciuality of Wales. On the death of a Princo of Wales in his father's lifetime tho title has been conferred on the Sovereign's grandson, or next younger son, being hnir apparent, though not upon Charles I till four years after the death of Princo Henry. As heir, oj the Crown of Scotland, tho eldest son of the Sovereign is Great Steward of Scotland, Duko of Rothesay, Eurl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, and Lord of the Isles, pursuant to an act of tho Scottish Parliament in 1469. Albert Edward, the successor to Que«n Victoria, was created Earl of Dublin on September 10, 1649, that dignity being destined to him and his heirs for ever.'