. The boyhood of a great king, 1841-1858 : an account of the early years of the life of His Majesty Edward VII. ians. The position of the youthful bridegroom was oneof extraordinary difficulty, but he never for a momentshrank from the responsibilities it entailed upon Sir Theodore Martin very ably puts it : Whilerenouncing every impulse of personal ambition heresolved to consecrate himself with the most abso-lute devotion to deepening, by the influence of hislife and the example of his home, the hold of theMonarchy upon the affections of the People, andto making it a power which, amid t
. The boyhood of a great king, 1841-1858 : an account of the early years of the life of His Majesty Edward VII. ians. The position of the youthful bridegroom was oneof extraordinary difficulty, but he never for a momentshrank from the responsibilities it entailed upon Sir Theodore Martin very ably puts it : Whilerenouncing every impulse of personal ambition heresolved to consecrate himself with the most abso-lute devotion to deepening, by the influence of hislife and the example of his home, the hold of theMonarchy upon the affections of the People, andto making it a power which, amid the conflictingand often selfish passions of political strife and thetortuous subtleties of diplomacy, should have forits unswerving object to increase that peopleswelfare and to uphold the power and dignity ofthe Empire. . He was fortunate, continuesthe same biographer, in having by his side inBaron Stockmar a man specially fitted by natureand by experience to direct his course, and to assistand encourage him amid the difficulties by whichit was surrounded. Nowhere in the records of* See/o//, p. THE IKINXE IX 18JM Stockmar and his Shrewdness history has Royalty been served with a devotionso purely noble and unselfish as that of this remark-able man to the Queen and the Prince. LordPalmerston spoke of him to Bunsen as one of thebest political heads he had ever met with/ ByBunsen himself he was honoured as one of thefirst statesmen in Europe. In the ordinary affairsof life his knowledge of men and shrewd practicalsense might always be relied on ; while, at the sametime, a high moral standard, and strong religiousconvictions, in which there was no leaven of sec-tarianism, gave a commanding weight and elevationto his character and counsels. Before Prince Albert had been twelve monthsin England Sir Robert Peel spoke of him as anextraordinary young man, while Lord Kingsdownfrankly confessed that his aptitude for businesswas wonderful; the dullest and most intricatema
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