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THE LITERARY LOUNGER: King Albert's Own

... His superiors looked upon him as an earnest officer, ready to learn his duties, and always observant of dis cipline. Prince Albert realised the force of the adage, Learn to obey if you would know ho w to comm and These are keys to the King's char acter ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 635 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE: Some New Books of the Day: King v. Country

... were doggedly opposed to every beneficent reform. Our next German Prince was more capable but also more autocratic. With Prince Albert, wrote Disraeli to the Saxon Minister, Count Vitzthum, we have buried our Sovereign. This German Prince has governed England ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1520 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Christopher and Columbus

... Queen Victoria when she deposited some primroses on Lord Beaconsfield's grave His favourite flower. She was thinking of Prince Albert, of course, while everyone else thought she was making a statement of fact with regard to Lord Beaconsfield hence the cult ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1919
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2172 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Seventy Years of Illustrated Journalism

... eighteen pictures. These eight pictures were of a ball at Buckingham Palace in which the young K Queen and her husband, Prince Albert, took part, ft Sir John Gilbert informed me that he had not ft been to the ball nor had he had any material ft given to ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1912
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2466 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE: THE BOOKS of Yesterday and To-day: New Nove's

... upon the Princess Victoria's girlhood. Not everyone knows, for example, of the many men who wanted to marry her before Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg carried off tbe prize. There is much entertaining gossip about Lord Melbourne and his frank manners. Altogether ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1912
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2705 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Good Reminiscences

... its repetition, and remarked in the icy silence which followed, We are not amused Her era was moral. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, we are told, were always spoken of privately by their ministers as Eliza and Joseph. Here is a picture of the Duke ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2573 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: CELEBRITIES OF THREE DECADES: A CLUBMAN'S REMINISCENCES

... of them commanded the English fleet in the war with America. After the wedding, they went to Ceylon, and there they met Princes Albert Victor and George, then midshipmen, at a ball. During the evening the Admiral granted them shore leave for an hour. The ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1064 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

SOME NEW BOOKS OF THE MOMENT: THE EPIC OF JAN SMUTS

... Levi. (Longmans.) 7s. 6d. net. See review on this page. Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr, K.C.B., C.M.G., Colonel Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry (sometime A.D.C. to H.M. Queen Victoria) Recollections and Correspondence, with a Short Account ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1917
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1484 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

SOME NEW BOOKS OF THE MOMENT: THE EPIC OF JAN SMUTS

... Levi. (Longmans.) 7s. 6d. net. See review on this page. Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr, K.C.B., C.M.G., Colonel Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry (sometime A.D.C. to H.M. Queen Victoria) Recollections and Correspondence, with a Short Account ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1917
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1484 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review