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Title: Queen Victoria, her grand life and glorious reign; a complete story of the career of the marvelous queen and empress, and a life of the new king, Edward VII, with a brief history of England
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Coulter, John, ed Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 Cooper, John A. (John Alexander), b. 1868, joint ed
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Publisher: (Chicago, H. Neil)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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THE UNHAPPY DUKE OF CLARENCE. 173 of his life. He was a traveler, from island to island, from continent to con-tinent. He was of a happy disposition and well liked by all. He visited Australia, he went to Fiji, Japan, China, Singapore, Colomboand Suez, and then went to England in the summer of 1882 by way of Egyptand the Holy Land. With the exception of India, His Royal Highnessvisited nearly all the places worth seeing before 1882. In 1883 he became an undergraduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, con-tinuing his studies during the long vacation at the University of Heidelberg.He was then transferred to Aldershot to study military science. His RoyalHighness was a good and keen sportsman. The Duke of Clarence was never regarded as a man of much weight.Society thought him a fop, and as a high collar was an indispensable part ofhis make-up, he was mercilessly nicknamed Collars and Cuffs. He wasnever so much in the public eye nor in the public sympathy as he was whenhe became the betrothe

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