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easy of access, yet maintaining his dignity as the constitutional 

 monarch of a democratic race. 



Ruling as he did over an empire already wider than Caesar's, 

 he had no ambition to extend it. Secure in the affection of the 

 majority of his subjects, King Edward could afford to be indifferent 

 to what the disloyal might say. Fearless of personal danger, 

 as various episodes in his life prove him to have been, he yet 

 abhorred and dreaded war and its attendant horrors, and the chief 

 aim of his career was to avert it. 



To the first Prince of Wales' famous motto " I serve " he might 

 well have added the words, " Peace and conciliation," for in very 

 deed they were his watchwords. And in brief, he was in the truest 

 and best sense, " An English gentleman." 



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