GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 
the age of Queen Anne. Joseph Addison, then in the prime of his 
manhood, though not yet of his literary fame, was doubtless often 
there—for he had written to order, after Blenheim, a eulogy on the 
victor said to be excellent of its kind; distinguished by more of 
truth, and less of bombast and flattery, than is common in such 
effusions—and he was for a time Secretary of State under Sunder- 
land, Marlborough’s son-in-law. 
With Addison may sometimes have come his friend, Dick Steele, 
who about the date when the Duke and Duchess went to Pall 
Mall, issued the first number of The Tatler—soon to be followed by 
the more famous Spectator. 
And others there were, more or less famous, in that motley 
crowd of hooped and powdered dames, and splendid gentlemen ; 
who laughed, and flirted, and talked scandal, and discussed high 
politics, and took snuff, in that pretty garden in the early days of 
the eighteenth century. At a distance from Marlborough House 
one may recall them, but on the spot one chiefly remembers that 
hither King Edward VII., when Prince of Wales, first brought his 
bride, the ‘‘ sea-King’s daughter from over the seas,” who took the 
hearts of London, and afterwards of the whole country, by storm ; 
and that here he resided during the greater part of his life—and 
that here our present King was born. I should think that to 
those who knew King Edward best, the garden must be pervaded 
with a sense of his presence. One interesting corner is a dog’s 
burial-place, and here among many canine pets of the Royal pair 
—each little grave distinguished by a separate head-stone—lies 
Cesar, the faithful animal which half London saw following the 
cortége, on the day of his master’s funeral. 
The Prince dwelt chiefly at Marlborough House when in 
England ; but he travelled much, and country life, and sport, 
and in particular his estate at Sandringham, had great attractions 
for his leisure. Yet from the fact that Queen Victoria had practi- 
cally abandoned London, Marlborough House became from the 
period of his marriage to his accession to the throne, the chief seat 
of his activities. 
As after years abundantly proved, Edward VII. was born with 
the instincts, and many of the special gifts, of a diplomat ; though 
the opportunity to use them was denied him until he began to 
reign. 
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