Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-06
ALBERT EDWARD.

ALBERT EDWARD.
The Future King Of England-His Habits,
Tastes and Early Training.
On Saturday May oath, Queen Veto
ria will be sixty years of age. She comes
of long-lived race, and may live to be
like William Of Germany, an octogena-
rian. Rut none the less interest grows,
with her increasing years, in the charac-
ter OF her eldest son, who is some day to
be styled Edward VIII, King of Great
Britain and Irland and Emperor Of India.
The London Truth, which is no wise a
tuft-hunter nor a fulspme flatterer of roy
atty, gives us this entertaining
SKETCH OF ALBERT EDWARD.
The Prince can unbcnd; and. indeed,
if ohe cared to describe characters in the
Prince of Ligne style (she is fiddle, he is
diddle, &c., through halt dozen pages,
one could analyze His Royal Higbness in
number Of curiously contradictory Gle
ments. The fact is, he is as affable as he
is proud; and many are the instances re-
lated OF his good nature. It may be re-
membored that a few years ago he was
ridden over in Rotten Row by a gentle
man who called on the following day at
Marlborough House to make the very
humblest apologies. The Prince was
very good natured about it, and insisted
on his visitor remaining to luncheon. In
club or mess-dinner the Prince is sim
ply gentleman among gentlemen. The
Prince is Tory in politics and sort of
broad, high churchman in religion Some
time ago he presented a couple of beau
titul altar candlesticks to the church at
Sandringham. But the friend of Dean
Stanley would not be likely to 90 too far
in this direction
HIS TORYIsM,
Too, is Of that kind which is open Con
certain questions) to conviction. Thus
the only vote he gave III the House of
Lords was in favor of the bill for legaliz-
ing marriages with deceased wife's Sis
ter. His brother, of Edinburgh, voted
with him, the Duke Of Cambridge being
in the majority, which threw out the bill
Generally speaking, however, the Prince
is good-humoredly conservative on pollti-
cal questions. The Prince, it should be
mentioned, is an excellent father, and very
DESTROYS that his sons should receive a
substantial education, 'and be taught to
do something with their hands, as he
put it. He is alsoa good son, and sets
the example of treating the Queens
slightest wish as command. It is out
of Difference to her will that he never at.
tends horse-races on Sundays while trav.
cling abroad. He once begged by lette,
that this rule should he relaxed so as tc
enable him to accept Marshal MacMa
hons invitation to see the Grand Pna
run, but a negative answer was received
by telegraph, and the Prince did not go tt
the race. Of the Princess literary tastes
there is not much to be said. Like mos1
modern Princes he is, by the mere force
OF circumstances,
GOOD LINGUIsT,
Speaking French and German as per
fectly as English. What is more, he car
make an after-dinner speech in French
and he can joke in the same tongue, HI
is fond of late hours, but, no matter how
late he may go to bed, he rises early thu
next morning. He is keen sportsman
and very fair shot. At whist he play.
an excellent hand. And whether the oc
cupation Of the moment be whist, spor
or dancing, he enters into it with the BIAS
airs of the golden of toe day. His con
stitutlon is an excellent one. He rarely
has a days illness, and he is living
proof that no amount Of tobacco can en-
feeble either mind or body. 1 believe hi
was the inventor of the now popular
drink, demon and Soda His education
by the way, was about as serious as car
be the education of man who is born tt
every thing worth having on earth, wht
becomes a colonel at eighteen and a gen
eral at twenty-one. The Queen made .
brave effort to bring up her sons in Spar
tan simplicity. Their table was of tn,
plainest kind; they were made to do
fair amount of work, and they were re
quired to take outdoor exercise ever,
day in wet as in sunny weather. Blu
once,
AT OXFORD,
The Prince was virtually his owl
master, and he certainly distinguished
himself more by universal urbanit1
than by too exclusive an attention to the
classic authors. There is rather a ludl
crous tradition at Oxford of how the
Prince, when an undergraduate, went
cup town" one bri ght afternoon inlog
nitus, as he fondly deemed, as we'll as IN.
cognito. What was his disgust on arriv.
ing at the Great Western terminus to fine
an equery in attendance and royal
carriage awaiting his orders. Whether the
Prince, despairing requested to be driven
to the Exeter Hall to pass quiet after.
noon the legend relateth not. It has often
been said that there is no royal road tc
learning. Let any one whc believes this
talk an half-hour with the Prince Of
Wales, when he may perhaps ask him
self whether this gooddiy ploverb is SC
very true after all. There is royal roaC
to knowledge, though few have the priv.
ilege of treading it. What most of III
must gain from the study of books a
Prince of Wales can gain from the living
conversation of the greatest men of hi!
day, from travels under the guidance O.
the most delightful of cicerones, from thu
best places at all the most famous sights
and shows, from early conversation will
reasons of state and questions Of policy
from assisting at (and taking part in) thu
making of history. The Prince IS
ADMIRABLY INFORMED
on an extraordinary number of questions
| OF late, too, he has shown taste and ca
pacity for work from which one augur
that he will scarcely be the ros fainean
which certain persons have prophesiet
and hoped he would be. There is n,
doubt that on questions of foreign affair
he will insist in having voice. His in
terest in them is, of course, of two-folt
nature. He is thorough Englishman
and very enthusiastic about the necessit,
| for the maintenance Of orr ,,roe4;o.o. 4.