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Mar 3, 2011 · Edward VII: The First Constitutional Monarch. By Lucy Moore. Last updated 2011-03-03. Lucy Moore reviews the life of a man who spent most of his life in the shadow of his mother, Queen Victoria...
Jan 24, 2023 · Despite his love of the finer things in life, King Edward VII was a skilled and devoted ruler who modernised Britain’s monarchy. Emma Slattery Williams. Published: January 24, 2023 at 10:55 AM. When 59-year-old Edward VII came to the throne in January 1901, he couldn’t have been more different to his late mother, Queen Victoria.
The coronation of Edward VII and his wife, Alexandra, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 9 August 1902. Originally scheduled for 26 June of that year, the ceremony had been postponed at very short notice, because the King had been taken ill with an abdominal abscess that ...
