. The boyhood of a great king, 1841-1858 : an account of the early years of the life of His Majesty Edward VII. een, although it wasreserved for one of her own sexf to celebrate inverse some of the most touching incidents of theaccession. There was nothing in Southeys lineson Princess Victoria which savoured of the long-since forgotten odes of his Georgian predecessors : When regal glory gems that brow,So humble, meek and gentle now,May Englands haughty foeman bowAnd Englands children braveThe glory of their name avowThe Lords of land and wave. Heathen mythology entered no longer into our Laur
. The boyhood of a great king, 1841-1858 : an account of the early years of the life of His Majesty Edward VII. een, although it wasreserved for one of her own sexf to celebrate inverse some of the most touching incidents of theaccession. There was nothing in Southeys lineson Princess Victoria which savoured of the long-since forgotten odes of his Georgian predecessors : When regal glory gems that brow,So humble, meek and gentle now,May Englands haughty foeman bowAnd Englands children braveThe glory of their name avowThe Lords of land and wave. Heathen mythology entered no longer into our Laureated Leaves. Now came another pleasantvisit to Tunbridge Wells, followed by two tranquilmonths spent unostentatiously at St. July 30, 1835, Princess Victoria was confirmedin the old-fashioned Chapel Royal of St. JamessPalace, where, before four more years had passedover her head, she was to be married. The visitsshe paid to Hatfield and Belvoir, Burghley andHolkham, and other seats of the mighty nowneed nothing more than a bare mention. They• See p. 329,/o//. t Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 64. PORTRAIT OF HKK ROVAL THEDUCHESS OF KEXr The Coburg Cousins doubtless assisted very largely in developing thegood seed planted in the school-room at Kensing-ton, so soon to be quitted for ever. In the followingyear [1836] the young Coburg Princes came toLondon—and Kensington. Our aunt Kent,wrote Prince Albert to his friends at home, isvery kind to us and our cousin is also very Victorias letter to Uncle Leopold,breathed the same frank enthusiasm. Possibly thefar-seeing King of the Belgians and the absolutelydisinterested Stockmar had something to do withthis most opportune four weeks sojourn of theCoburg brothers in the British metropolis. Theearly training of Prince Albert had been the subjectof quite as much care and anxiety as that of his fairyoung English cousin. Neither the presence ofthe Princes nor the claims of society were allowed byDean
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