KING EDWARD VII.
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as I can well cram into a letter of reasonable length. She keeps these, and could one day make a book out of my travelling notes. I wish you could see the Princess. She possesses a soul as perfect as her face, which you must know is very sweet and beautiful.
And these sentiments of pity and the desire to relieve suffering, were fully shared by the gracious woman whom I he had chosen. For the name of Alexandra—Princess or Queen—will remain synonymous for many a generation with the thought of spontaneous philanthropy—with the I remembrance of "an infinite capacity for doing good."
The ordinary troubles of life, which no pomp nor power can avert, fell upon the royal pair,—the all-but fatal illness of the Prince of Wales in 1871,—the loss of their youngest child the same year, and of their eldest on the eve of his marriage in 1892. The sense of relationship with the whole nation sustained them in their sorrow.
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