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KING EDWARD VII.
His approaching marriage with the beautiful Danish Princess Alexandra stirred him deeply. It was a love-match of the most romantic nature,—from the time that, having fallen in love with her portrait, he met her in the old Cathedral of Spires, to the day when sixty maidens strewed flowers before her in the English streets,—when, "since womankind existed," as Thackeray wrote, "has any woman had such a greeting?"
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I feel now (wrote Albert Edward) what it is to be really happy. If I can make the future life and home of the Princess a happy one, I shall be content. I feel doubly happy in the thought that my approaching marriage is one that has the approval of the Nation: and I only trust that I may not disappoint the expectations that have been formed of me.
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