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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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ike the prismatic zoneWhich binds the water cloud,That nothing gloomy ever may enshroudHearts—her love-mates—people, or her throne. Mrs. Lilly, who had acted as nurse on the occasionof the birth of the Princess Royal and Prince ofWales, and now almost a national institution, wasagain in attendance. The Princess was reportedto be a fine healthy child. The addition thus made to the ranks of theQueens children became the signal for a mild out-burst of caricatures for one of which T. McLean, 26Haymarket, is responsible. It was headed, A FirstLesson on the Welsh Harp, and in it we have theQueen with Princess Alice in arms, and Prince Albertleaning over her chair, with Eos, a parrot and othercanine pets in the foreground. The Prince ofWales sits in an impossible baby-chair, a grim nurseholding him^by his sash^while he plays on a giganticharp. In another, facetiously entitled, 1855—A Scenein Perspective, an endless procession of royalolive branches is foreshadowed, while in a third 136
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THE INTERIOR OF PRINCE ALBERTS STOCK A TOY-IirTlltK ri IU,ISIIF.(> AUOlT 1844 Tender Annuals to be known as Tender Annuals, the same subjectis dealt with by the aid of an equally large numberof miniature cucumber frames. In a fourth PrinceAlbert is depicted teaching his son his letters froma lengthy pictorial scroll : A anticorn law leagues bother the nation B at which poor John Bull looks in great tribulation C stands for the Church, Constitution and Crown D stands for Daniel who would pull them all down* * * * * I an Income Tax a terrible thing K cries kick it down when you will be King; and so forth; while Queen Victoria with Princess Alicein her arms, and the Princess Royal at her knee, lookson approvingly. It was at this time that colour-prints of the Queen, Prince Albert and theirchildren walking, riding and driving, either atWindsor or in the grounds of Buckingham Palace,achieved a sudden and widespread popularity. Manyof them, like the Windsor Pear and Prince AlbertsStock,

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