King of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
People connected to Edward VII
He waited longer than anyone: nearly 60 years as heir before becoming king at 59. His mother kept him from power, so he became the face of Edwardian leisure — the playboy prince who finally got the crown.
Albert Edward, called Bertie, was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. His mother's mistrust kept him on the sidelines for decades, and he filled the time with ceremony and travel — a popular 1860 tour of North America, an 1875 visit to India, a reputation for pleasure that Victoria despised. He married Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863; they had six children. When Victoria died in 1901, he inherited the throne at last. As Edward VII, he pushed for modernisation of the Home Fleet and Army after the Boer War, restored royal pageantry, and widened the circles royalty moved in.…
Sourced, dated quotes from Edward VII
I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.
William the Great needs to learn that he is living at the end of the nineteenth century and not in the Middle Ages.
We hear a great deal about the Eternal Father; but I am the only man afflicted with an Eternal Mother.
Gentlemen, you may smoke.
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