King Edward VII

Standard Name: Edward VII, King
Used Form: Edward Prince of Wales
Used Form: Edward Albert
Used Form: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Carola Oman
CO was born in Oxford, the middle child in a family of three, during a visit to Oxford by the Prince of Wales .
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
51
Cultural formation Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Born Scottish, with some Irish forebears, the young Conan Doyle (later SACD ) was somewhat precariously placed in the British middle class, living in comparative poverty but supported through a privileged education by richer relations...
Dedications Florence Dixie
The journey was undertaken with the intention of writing about it. The book appeared with a dedication, by permission, to the Prince of Wales .
Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton, 1981.
83
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Trefusis
Later in life especially, Trefusis liked to whisper to friends that she was really the daughter of Edward VII , whom she and her sister called Grandpapa and Kingy Gateau as children.
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997.
15, 62
Chronologically...
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Trefusis
Mrs Keppel was a wealthy woman, both as Edward VII 's former mistress and because by 1918 her own speculations yielded more than £20,000 a year. This gave her an advantage in her goal of...
Family and Intimate relationships Florence Dixie
FD 's second son, Albert Edward Wolston Beaumont Dixie , was born: the future King Edward VII , still Prince of Wales, stood godfather to him.
Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton, 1981.
79
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Alice Meynell
AM 's sister Elizabeth , later Lady Butler, became a well-known painter. She earned high praise for her depiction of a battle scene in The Roll Call, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1874...
Family and Intimate relationships Elma Napier
The game in question occurred at Wilson's home in September 1890. The Prince of Wales had been in attendance, and was called to testify against EN 's father. The guilty verdict is often attributed to...
Family and Intimate relationships Pam Gems
PG 's mother, Elsie (Annetts) Price , and her two widowed grandmothers brought her up.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Elsie, who had worked as servant to one of Edward VII 's mistresses, was familiar with wealth, though not with...
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
QV gave birth to her second child, the heir to the throne, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales .
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xiv
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
The Prince of Wales, and heir to the throne of Britain, Edward Albert , married Princess Alexandra of Denmark .
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xvi
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
Commonly referred to as Bertie, he became in due course King Edward VII . Prince Albert purposely broke with the tradition of inviting the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord President of the Council...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Brett
DB 's father, Reginald Baliol Brett , became the second Viscount Esher after his father 's death in 1899. In his capacity as a peer and courtier, Reginald Regy Brett wore distinguished hats after being...
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
The Prince of Wales was in this year seriously ill with typhoid.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xvii
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Trefusis
VT 's mother, Alice Frederica (Edmonstone) Keppel , was born in 1869 to Mary Elizabeth (Parsons) and William Edmonstone at Duntreath Castle near Loch Lomond, Scotland.
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997.
15-17
Alice married George Keppel in 1891, but...

Timeline

From May 1851: At the Great Exhibition, Bax and Company...

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From May 1851

At the Great Exhibition, Bax and Company exhibited their newly invented waterproof, flexible, breathable fabric called Aquascutum.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
83-4

1862: By royal command, photographer Francis Bedford...

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1862

By royal command, photographer Francis Bedford attended the Prince of Wales on his trip to the Near East.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
73

May 1877: Lillie Langtry, aged twenty-four, made her...

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May 1877

Lillie Langtry , aged twenty-four, made her entrance into London society at a dinner party; she soon became a famous professional beauty.
Angeloglou, Maggie. A History of Make-up. Studio Vista, 1970.
100-2

By 24 December 1881: Lillie Langtry became the first English society...

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By 24 December 1881

Lillie Langtry became the first English society woman to appear professionally on the stage when she played Kate Hardcastle in Goldsmith 's She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre , London.
Norback, Craig T., and Melvin Gray. The World’s Great News Photos 1840-1980. Crown Publishers, 1980.
23
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
2
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2826 (1881): 861

21 April 1883: The Royal College of Music was founded in...

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21 April 1883

The Royal College of Music was founded in London.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
834
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
308

1889-1893: Augustus Harris rented Covent Garden opera...

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1889-1893

Augustus Harris rented Covent Garden opera house, where he instigated many changes. Most notably, French and German operas were performed in their original language for the first time at that venue.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
92
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
183

18 December 1890: London's City and South London line became...

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18 December 1890

London's City and South London line became the world's first electric underground railway and the first to supply electricity to locomotives by means of a third rail.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
152, 154
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
318
Day, John R. The Story of London’s Underground. London Transport, 1974.
54-5
Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
152
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
135

1896: The Daimler Company of Stuttgart opened a...

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1896

The Daimler Company of Stuttgart opened a factory in England at Coventry. It manufactured patented French and German cars.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
143

22 January 1901: Edward VII assumed the throne on the death...

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22 January 1901

Edward VII assumed the throne on the death of his mother, Queen Victoria .
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 216
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
47

19 July 1904: King Edward VII laid the foundation stone...

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19 July 1904

King Edward VII laid the foundation stone for Liverpool Cathedral, built to the designs of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott .
“The Cathedral”. 1904-2004: Liverpool Cathedral.

18 November 1905: King Edward VII's daughter Queen Maud became...

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18 November 1905

King Edward VII 's daughter Queen Maud became Norway's first queen in the year that that country gained its independence from Sweden and her husband accepted election to its throne as Haakon VII .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

26 June 1909: Edward VII opened the Victoria and Albert...

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26 June 1909

Edward VII opened the Victoria and Albert Museum , South Kensington, London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
342

January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...

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January 1910

A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George 's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative and [Ulster] Unionist Parties came in only two votes behind the Liberals

6 May 1910: King Edward VII died, and George V assumed...

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6 May 1910

King Edward VII died, and George V assumed the throne; Virginia Woolf dated a section of The Years from the old king's death.
Woolf, Virginia. The Years. Hogarth Press, 1979.
172, 184, 205

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