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Identifier: hrhprinceofwales00lown (find matches)
Title: H. R. H., the Prince of Wales; an account of his career, including his birth, education, travels, marriage and home life; and philanthropic, social and political work
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 1868-1947
Subjects: Edward VII, king of Great Britain, 1841-1910
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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enjoyed their visit. This year of 1878, so brilliant in Paris, brought to the BritishRoyal family a bereavement which can only be compared for itssuddenness and bitterness with the death of the Prince Consort.The Grand Duchess of Hesse (Princess Alice), after nursing herchildren through a malignant diphtheria, herself fell a victim to thesame dread disease on the very anniversary of her fathers death.The blow fell with peculiar severity on the Prince and Princess ofWales, with whom Princess Alice had been united in the bonds ofthe closest affection, especially since the Princes illness, in whichshe had proved herself so devoted a nurse. The link between theRoyal brother and sister is significantly shown by the fact thatPrincess Alice never visited England without paying long visits atSandringham or at Marlborough House. The Prince of Wales wasone of the chief mourners at the funeral in Darmstadt. QUIET YEARS OF PUBLIC WORK 113 After this blow the Prince and Princess of Wales naturally
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The Prince in 1879 From a Portrait by Angeli, published by Henry Granjes and Co. remained for some months in the deepest retirement. A new griefwas, however, in store for them—the tragic death in the following I 114 THE PRINCE OF WALES June of the young Prince Imperial, in whose career the Prince ofWales had always taken a warm and almost paternal interest. HisRoyal Highness was among the very first in this country to beinformed of the terrible news, and he was of the greatest assistanceto the stricken Empress Eugenie in making the complicated arrange-ments for the funeral. His active sympathy, and the announcementthat the heir to the British Crown intended to be the principal pall-bearer of Napoleon III.s ill-fated son, aroused much comment onthe Continent, and gave great satisfaction to Frenchmen of all shadesof political opinion. On a beautiful wreath of violets which wassent from Marlborough House for the funeral at Chislehurst werethe words, written in the Princess of Waless ow

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