King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War by Catrine Clay

Author:Catrine Clay [Clay, Catrine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Royalty, History, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Germany, England/Great Britain, WWI, 20th Century, Nonfiction, Military & Fighting
ISBN: 978-0802718839
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2006-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

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Uncle Bertie and his Two Nephews

THE NEWSPAPERS WERE extravagant in their praise of the new King, all but The Times, which took a high moral tone, reminding its readers that although Edward VII's public life had always been conducted well and he had never failed in his duty to the nation, 'we shall not pretend that there is nothing in his long career which those who respect and admire him would wish otherwise.' In case the reader could not pick up the inference, it was spelled out: the King had been 'importuned by temptation in its most seductive forms.'

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