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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 Czsar’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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