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| The King. From the Painting by Mr. A. Stuart Wortley | [Frontispiece] |
| The King at Homburg | [xvi] |
| The Christening of King Edward VII. | [9] |
| Queen Victoria, the Empress Frederick, and King Edward VII. | [11] |
| King Edward VII. | [13] |
| King Edward VII. at the Age of Three | [15] |
| The King in 1847 | [17] |
| The Landing of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their Children at Aberdeen | [19] |
| The King and the Empress Frederick as Children | [21] |
| The Rev. Henry Mildred Birch, the King’s First Tutor | [25] |
| Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their Children | [27] |
| The King at the Age of Eight, and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at
the Age of Five | [29] |
| Sketching at Loch Laggan—Queen Victoria with King Edward and the
Empress Frederick | [31] |
| Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. | [32] |
| The King in 1859 | [35] |
| Christ Church, Oxford | [38] |
| Trinity College, Cambridge | [39] |
| The King in 1861 | [41] |
| The Tour in Canada and the United States, 1860 | [43] |
| The Fifth Duke of Newcastle, K.G. | [44] |
| The King’s Landing at Montreal | [46] |
| The King laying the Last Stone of the Victoria Bridge over the St. Lawrence | [47] |
| The Grand Ball given at the Academy of Music, New York | [52] |
| Dean Stanley | [58] |
| The King’s Reception by Said Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, at Cairo | [59] |
| The King about the Time of his Marriage | [62] |
| Queen Alexandra | [65] |
| The King on Coming of Age | [67] |
| Queen Alexandra in 1863 | [69] |
| Queen Alexandra | [71] |
| The Marriage of the King and Queen | [75] |
| A Contemporary Design for the Royal Wedding | [78] |
| On the Wedding Day | [81] |
| Queen Alexandra at the Time of her Marriage | [82] |
| Queen Alexandra in 1863 | [86] |
| Queen Alexandra in 1864 | [89] |
| Queen Alexandra with the Baby Prince Albert Victor | [91] |
| King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and Prince Albert Victor | [93] |
| Queen Victoria with Prince Albert Victor | [95] |
| King Edward at the Age of Twenty-Three | [99] |
| Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra, and Princess Christian | [101] |
| Queen Alexandra about the Year 1865 | [102] |
| Thanksgiving Day, 1872: The Scene at Temple Bar | [132] |
| Thanksgiving Day, 1872: The Procession up Ludgate Hill | [134] |
| Queen Alexandra and her Sister, the Empress Alexander of Russia, in 1873 | [137] |
| Queen Victoria, with the Princes Albert Victor and George, and their sister,
Princess Victoria | [139] |
| The King’s Indian Tour, 1875 | [143] |
| Embarkation on Board the Serapis at Brindisi | [147] |
| The King’s Visit to the Cawnpore Memorial | [153] |
| The King in 1876 | [157] |
| The King in 1879 | [161] |
| The King in 1882 | [164] |
| Queen Alexandra in her Robes as Doctor of Music | [169] |
| The Duchess of Fife, Princess Victoria, and Princess Charles of Denmark | [175] |
| The Duke of Fife | [177] |
| The Duke of Clarence and Avondale | [185] |
| Queen Alexandra | [193] |
| King Edward and Queen Alexandra, with the Duchess of Fife and Lady
Alexandra Duff | [201] |
| Queen Victoria and the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York | [205] |
| The King in the Undress Uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet | [210] |
| The King as Grand Master of the Knights-Hospitallers of Malta, at the
Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball | [213] |
| The Duke of Cornwall and York in his Robes as a Knight of St. Patrick | [215] |
| The Duchess of Cornwall and York | [217] |
| The Duke of Connaught, the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg, the German
Emperor, King Edward VII., Queen Victoria, and the Empress
Frederick | [223] |
| The King with the Ladies Duff | [229] |
| Sandringham from the Grounds | [235] |
| The Norwich Gate at Sandringham | [238] |
| The East Front, Sandringham | [239] |
| Queen Alexandra’s Dairy at Sandringham | [241] |
| Queen Alexandra at Sandringham | [245] |
| The Kennels, Sandringham | [248] |
| Queen Alexandra with her Favourite Dogs | [250] |
| Marlborough House from the South-West | [252] |
| Marlborough House: the Drawing-Room | [254] |
| Garden Party at Marlborough House, July 1881 | [257] |
| Marlborough House: the Salon | [259] |
| The King as Admiral of the Fleet | [269] |
| The King as Colonel of the 10th Hussars | [273] |
| The King and the Duke of Connaught | [277] |
| Sir Francis Knollys | [292] |
| Mr. John Porter and Mr. Richard Marsh, the King’s Past and Present
Trainers, and John Watts, his Jockey | [296] |
| The Egerton House Training Stables, Newmarket | [297] |
| The King’s Derby, 1896 | [299] |
| The King as a Sportsman in 1876 | [305] |
| The Britannia | [307] |
| The King as a Yachtsman | [308] |