The Boyhood of a Great King 1841 1858 An Account of the Early Years of the Li
The Boyhood of a Great King 1841 1858 An Account of the Early Years of the Li
Alexander Meyrick Broadley
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Gibbs (1852-1855), both tutors being at all times subject to the vigilant care and constant supervision of the Queen and Prince Albert. In the opinion of Mr. Birch as well as in the estimation of Mr. Gibbs, the Heir Apparent showed an aptness for study and a natural intelligence far above the average possessed by boys of his own age. Gifted with a memory for facts and faces almost phenomenal, he acquired foreign languages with astonishing rapidity, and his taste for art in the widest sense of t...he term was certainly hereditary. Very few con- temporary statesmen can, like King Edward VII. , speak and write at least three languages with equal fluency and correctness. His tact also seems to be innate, and his powers as an impromptu speaker have scarcely met with the recognition they merit. The foundations of much that distinguishes him to-day were laid carefully and patiently in those first years of the sixth decade of the nineteenth 260 The Early "Fifties" century which were destined to witness the deaths of Wordsworth, Peel and Wellington ; the forma- tion and collapse of two Cabinets ; the passing away from the ranks of Royalty of the Duke of jCambridge and the Queen of the Belgians : the general unrest caused by the Papal Aggression, and the inception, erection and successful inauguration in Hyde Park of the Great Exhibition of all Nations, which far from proving the harbinger of a long and universal peace, turned out to be the immediate prelude of the coup (TEtat which made the quondam exile Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, and the forerunner of the Crimean War.
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