. H. R. H., the Prince of Wales; an account of his career, including his birth, education, travels, marriage and home life; and philanthropic, social and political work. next day PrinceAlbert Victor was initiated as a Freemason in the presence of a largeand most distinguished company, his father, the Prince of Wales,receiving the Royal apprentice in his quality of Worshipful Masterof the Royal Alpha Lodge, On the following day the Prince ofWales, Prince Albert Victor, and the Duke of Edinburgh went toBerlin to congratulate the aged Emperor William on his 8 8th birthday. It had been decided, no
. H. R. H., the Prince of Wales; an account of his career, including his birth, education, travels, marriage and home life; and philanthropic, social and political work. next day PrinceAlbert Victor was initiated as a Freemason in the presence of a largeand most distinguished company, his father, the Prince of Wales,receiving the Royal apprentice in his quality of Worshipful Masterof the Royal Alpha Lodge, On the following day the Prince ofWales, Prince Albert Victor, and the Duke of Edinburgh went toBerlin to congratulate the aged Emperor William on his 8 8th birthday. It had been decided, not without the most anxious consideration,that the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by their eldestson, should pay a visit to Ireland. The announcement was receivedwith the greatest excitement both in Ireland and in America. United Ireland, the chief organ of the Nationalist party, thenedited by Mr. William OBrien, and said to be largely written byMr. T. M. Healy, brought out a special number devoted entirely to VISIT TO IRELAND 119 expressions of opinion from eminent Irishmen of all kinds on thePrinces visit. Every Nationalist Member of Parliament, every. The Princess of Wales in her Robes as Doctor of Music From a Photograph by Chancellor, Dublin prominent ecclesiastic, in a word, every Irishman of conspicuousNationalist views, was invited to say what he thought of the forth-coming Royal visit. The answers filled a copious supplement, and I20 THE PRINCE OF WALES their tenour was one of unanimous disapproval, expressed in somecases strongly, and in others in terms of studied moderation. Almostall the letters agreed in counselling an attitude of absolute indifferenceto the visit, but abstention from any kind of display of hostility to thePrince himself was insisted on ; and it was openly said that the partwhich His Royal Highness was playing in this pageant was a moreor less passive one. This, perhaps, showed more than anything elsethat has occurred during the Princes l
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