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little more than nine years. He 

 had five children who survived 

 infancy : the duke of Clarence, 

 who predeceased him, King George 

 V, the princess royal, princess Vic- 

 toria, and the queen of Norway. 



Bibliography. Life, 5 vols., J. 

 P. Brodhurst, 1905-11 ; Edward 

 the Peacemaker, W. H. Wilkins, 

 1910-11 ; King Edward VII as a 

 Sportsman, A. E. T. Watson, 1911 ; 

 King Edward in his True Colours. 

 E. Legge, 1912; More About King 

 Edward, E. Legge, 1913; The 

 Influence of King Edward, Viscount 

 Esher, 1915. 



Edward (b. 1894). Prince of 

 Wales. The eldest son of King 

 George V and Queen Mary, he was 

 born at White Lodge, Richmond, 

 June 23, 1894- and christened, on 

 July 16, Edward Albert Christian 

 George Andrew Patrick David. 



In 1907 the prince entered the 

 Royal Naval College, Osborne, for 

 two years' training, going next to 

 Dartmouth. He was created prince 



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of Wales, June 23, 1910. His in- 

 vestiture as prince of Wales, at 

 Carnarvon, was notable because 

 he was the first of nineteen princes 

 of Wales to be invested in Wales 

 itself. As midshipman he sailed on 

 H.M.S. Hindustan, where he proved 

 himself a thoroughly hard worker. 

 The prince's first public ceremony 

 was at the presentation of a silver 

 oar to Dartmouth, in March, 1911 : 

 he was invested Knight of the 

 Order of the Garter, June 10, 

 1911, and a few days afterwards 

 took a leading part in the coro- 

 nation of his parents. In 1912, 

 being eighteen, he celebrated his 

 majority. In 1913 he entered Mag- 

 dalen College, Oxford, after a visit 

 to Paris, where he received the 

 Legion of Honour. 



When the Great War broke out 

 in August, 1914, he made an appeal 

 for the national fund to allay dis- 

 tress, and millions of pounds were 

 subscribed. He was gazetted, Nov. 

 17, 1914, as aide-de-camp to the 

 commander-in-chief of the Expe- 

 ditionary Forces, and went to 

 France. He was attached in turn 

 to army corps, divisional and bri- 

 gade headquarters, and was fre- 

 quently under fire. He carried the 

 dispatch concerning the battle of 

 Neuve Chapelle on his brief leave 

 m April, 1915. 



His 21st birthday passed with- 

 out public celebration, by his wish, 

 but a separate establishment was 

 provided for him in St. James's 

 Palace. He served in Egypt in 

 1916, as captain on the general 

 staff, and visited the Italian front 

 at a time of crisis. During short 



Edward. Prince ot Wales. Scene after the investiture at Carnarvon Castle, 

 July 13, 1911. The Prince is standing between King George and Queen Alary 

 on a platform at the top of specially constructed steps at the gate where, 

 according to tradition, the first infant prince of Wales was presented by 

 Edward I to the Welsh chiefs. Inset : His Royal Highness as Colonel oi 

 the Welsh Guards (photo Vandyk) 



leave, the prince took his seat in 

 the House of Lords, Feb., 1918, 

 being promoted major in the same 

 month. After the armistice he 

 undertook many public duties ; 

 and took up the freedom of the 

 City of London, May, 1919. He 

 toured through Canada and the 

 U.S.A., August-December, 1919, 

 visited Fiji, New Zealand, and 

 Australia in 1920, and made a tour 

 of the Indian Empire in 1921-22. 

 Possessed of a simple directness of 

 speech, combined with geniality 

 and tact, the prince discharged his 

 varied duties with success. 



David Williamson 



Edward (1330-76), known as 

 the Black Prince. Eldest son of 

 Edward III of England, he was 

 born at Woodstock. June 15, 1330 ; 

 in 1333 was made earl of Ches- 

 ter, four years later duke of Corn- 

 wall, and in 1343 prince of Wales. 

 In 1345 he accompanied his father 

 on the French campaign and dis- 



tinguished himself at the battle of 

 Crecy. Two years later he was at 

 the capture of Calais, and in 1350 

 he was in the sea fight off Win- 

 chelsea against the Spaniards. In 

 1355 Edward was sent to Gascony, 

 when he led the English armies in 

 a series of raids over the French 

 territory. In the following year a 

 similar expedition culminated in 

 the battle of Poitiers (q.o.). 



In 1357 he returned to England 

 and in 1361 married his cousin 

 Joan, known as the Fair Maid of 

 Kent. In 1362 his father granted 

 him Gascony and Aquitaine. He 

 took part in a disastrous expedi 

 tion for replacing Peter of Castile 

 on the throne, but soon many dis- 

 aflected lords of his territories rose 

 against him, and many of his 

 towns surrendered to them When, 

 after a month's siege, he re-took 

 Limoges, he ordered a general 

 massacre of its inhabitants. In 

 1371 Edward returned, in broken 



