The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-01

ago. King of Great Britain and
Ireland and Emperor of India, is
Edward VII today. He is the first OF
the name since 1863. wnen Edward VI
the only son and successor of Henry
VIII, died and left the throne to his
half-sister, Mary, who was succeeded
at her death five years later by her
f4alf-sisfef, Elizabeth,-gthes virgin Queen.
With her, after a reign of forty four
years, the Tudor line failed, TO be fol-
lowed by the Stuarts for one hundred !
and eleven years, and then, in 1714, by
the House of Hanover, to which the !
present monarch belongs.
His boyhood education and training
was intrusted to the Rev. Henry NJ. /,
Birch, rector of Prestwich; MIR. GibDs, !
barrister-at-law: the Rev c. F. Tar /
wee and H. w. Fisher. Later he at
tended for one session at Edinburgh !
and then entered Christchurch College, /
oxford University After a year of |
attendance on the public lectures at
that famous institution, he went to
Cambridge for the same purpose, and
remained three or four terms
MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE.
On March 10, 1853, when in his twen-
ty-second year, he was married to
King Christian TX of Denmark, a sis
ter of Princess Marie Dagmar, mar
ried in 1866 to Car Nicholas II, by
whom he has had five children, one OF
whom, the eldest, Albert Victor Duke
of Clarence, born January s, 1864, died
January IA, 1892
The living children are: George,
Duke Of York, born June g. 1865;
Louise, Duchess of Fife, born February
20 1861; Victoria, born July 6, 1868;
Maud, born November 20, 1869.
In May, 1891, the Prince became a
grandfather by the birth of daugh-
ter, Alexandra Victoria, to the Prin-
cess Louise, who had married the Duke
of Fife, July q. 1889
George, Duke of York. who now sue
ceeds to the position of heir apparent
which his father held for so many
years, was married on July 6, 1893, to
his cousin, Princess Victoria Mary,
daughter of the Duke OF Teck. They
have insured the succession TO their
branch of the family for time in the
persons of three sons and one daugh
ter Edward Albert, born June %,
1894; Albert Frederick Arthur, born
December ID, 1895; Victoria, born April
25, 1897; Henry born May, 1899.
Princess Maud, the youngest daugh-
ter of the King. was married July 22,
1896. to Prince Karl of Denmark.
ALBERT EDWARDS TRAVELS.
Both before and after his marriage
the Prince of Wales travelled extern
sively both at home and abroad. His
first visit abroad was in his nineteenth
year, to America, where he spent three
months, making the rounds of the
principal cities of Canada and the
United States. He crossed in Fl. NJ. S.
Hero, and landed at. Halifax July 80,
1860, with the Duke of Newcastle and
Major General Bruce. Near where he
landed. his grandfather, Duke of Kent,
had his headquarters when he COM
manded the British troops in North
America some decades before. He
spent the early and middle part of Au-
gust in the eastern part Of Canada
and arrived at Montreal August %,
where he was received with the great
est enthusiasm.
After inaugurating Victoria Bridge
! at Montreal and laying the corner
stone at the new Parliament building
at ottawa, he visited Toronto and
Niagara at which latter place he saw
| the celebrated Blondin perform on his
| tight rope over the falls, and by which
he was much impressed
on Tuesday, the third week. he
crossed over from Windsor, Canada, to
Detroit, Michigan. dropping his title of
| Prince on the way and landing on
! United States soil as Baron Renrrew.
! which incognito he held during all his
stay with US.
! Fifty thousand people witnessed the
coming Of the great grandson of
George III, and forgetting all the ami
mosities of 1776 and 1872, welcomed him