The.Real.Edward.VII
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At the funeral of queen victoria in
1901 her eldest son, now
King Edward VII, saluted the crowd from a splendid black horse. This is what he had been waiting for all his life, but what his mother had dreaded.
Edward had been a king - in - waiting for almost 60 years denied a real job he sought rewards elsewhere.
Once king he turned himself into a figure head surrounded by pomp and circumstance. But the prince who scandalized victorian society and became a king who indulged his passion for royal pageantry turned out to be a role model for modern monarchs. A family portrait, painted when he was 5, hints at what would become the central conflict of Edwards life his relationship with his parent
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