Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward was related to royalty throughout Europe. He was Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne for almost 60 years. During the long reign of his mother, he was largely excluded from political power, and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite.
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Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward was related to royalty throughout Europe. He was Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne for almost 60 years. During the long reign of his mother, he was largely excluded from political power, and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite. His tours of North America in 1860 and the Indian subcontinent in 1875 were popular successes, but despite public approval, his reputation as a playboy prince soured his relationship with his mother. The Edwardian era, which covered Edward’s reign and was named after him, coincided with the start of a new century and heralded significant changes in technology and society, including steam turbine propulsion and the rise of socialism. He died in 1910 in the midst of a constitutional crisis that was resolved the following year by the Parliament Act 1911, which restricted the power of the unelected House of Lords. In 1860, Edward undertook the first tour of North American by a Prince of Welsh, and made a great success. He met Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. He watched Charles Blondin traverse Niagara Falls by highwire and stayed for three days with President James Buchanan at the White House. In 1861, he transferred to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was tutored in history by Charles Kingsley, Regius Professor of Modern History.
His efforts brought forth the best academic performances of Edward’s life, and Edward actually looked forward to his lectures. His genial good humour and good humour made the tour agreat success, and he inaugurated the St Lawrence Bridge, Montreal, and laid the cornerstone of Parliament, Ottawa, for the First World War. In 1863, he renounced his succession rights to the Duchy of Saxes and Gothas in favour of his younger brother Prince Alfred. As a son of Prince Albert, he also held the titles of Prince of Saxedon and Duke of Saxony, and Earl of Chester. In 1859, he spent the summer of that year studying at the University of Edinburgh under, among others, the chemist Lyon Playfair. Unlike his elder sister Victoria, he did not excel in his studies, and tried to meet the expectations of his parents, but to no avail. Although Edward was not a diligent student, his true talents were those of charm, sociability and tact—Benjamin Disraeli described him as informed, intelligent and of sweet manner. As the eldest. son of the British sovereign, he. was automatically Duke of Cornwall anduke of Rothesay at birth. He was named Albert after his father and Edward after his maternal grandfather, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. Edward was known as Bertie to the royal family throughout his life.
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