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Kings or Princes themselves do not particularly interest Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr. Rather it is the principles under- lying them that provide his material,He goes further back
right to the days of the king as Dictator when Henry VII
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kingship, strictly limited by law. This lasts until Disraeli imbues the Crown, by then grown a sickly thing, with a romantic Prologues to the Coronation mystery, and that movement has continued ever since. Of the have been published profusely in London and two of the latest are abdication the author writes. particularly distinguished varia-cone can but presume that the Crown's isolation is a political tions on the theme. Both were
way,
its dependence on Parlia obviously written before what is now known as “the crisis," but ment and the parties that govern both have short and poignant it, as well as its exclusion from all share of actual Government, notes reconciling the abdications, constitutionally, complete and with their theses.
absolute. This extract, which This is particularly distressing in the case
of Sir George Ar is only part of one sentence, illus- trates one of the main charms of thur's book, "Seven Heirs AP this book. The whole
essay is parent," for his story does not
written in pure eighteenth cen-
deal with actual kingship at alltúry prose, with all the circum-
with an and instead of holding up the
but with the preparation for it. As he traces the development of locutions, phrases within phrases, clauses and subclauses of a education for a Prince of Wales, Bolingbroke. Yet the arguments culminating in the princely and
flow in their wordy channels apparently faultless education of
extraordinary impetus, Edward the VIIL, the unexpect ed end shows up in an almost tragic light. Additionally so be- movement, this method seems to cause the education of the early give it added force. Some of our Princes of Wales may have been young laconists should think well unwise, yet never terminated by upon this.
disaster. For the Hanoverians,
indeed, the one function of a
Prince of Wales as shown by Sir The Bishops' Homage George seems to have been mere ly to quarrel with their fathers
It is an amusing fact about the and to be cordially detested in changes in the Coronation service return. My dear First Born is that William IV is vindicated at the greatest ass, and the great last. After more than 100 years est liar, and the greatest canaille, and after three coronations be- and the greatest beast in the sides his own his protest against whole world, and I heartily wish separate homage fromthe he was out of it,” wrote George bishops has apparently had effect. II. of his son, Frederick. And And yet what horror seems to yet, strangely enough, this des- have been roused by the sugges- cription, which might so easily tion when he made it; no doubt be applied to some of the other it was repeated up and down the Hanoverians, fits least of all the town as another instance of that character of Frederick. Destined "levity” which shocked the never to come to the throne, he diarists so much. In August, struggles as an honest, pleasant, 1831, Charles Greville took note but pathetic figure through the of a "droll thing" the King had mire of eighteenth century done recently. graft. Frederick playing cricket on the lawns at Cliveden, Fred- erick revered and beloved by his children, Frederick failing time and time again to storm the af fections of his father. "Poor |Fred," loved by the whole coun
try, is an unusual figure in the Hanoverian court.
The ceremonial of the Coronation was taken down to him for approval. The homage is first done by the spiritual peers, with the Archbishop at their head. The first of each class (the Archbishop for the spiritual) says the words and then they all kiss his cheek in succession. He said he would not be kissed by the bishops, and ordered that part to be struck out. As I expected the prelates would not stand it; the Archbishop remonstrated, the King knocked under and so he must undergo the salute of the spiritual as well as the temporal lords.
This portrait is certainly, the most interesting in the book. George II. and George III. seem to have been slightly more ata tractive as Princes than Kings, but even so the author treats them with__scant sympathy George IV., as always the perfect butt for
- the biographer, receives his due praise as an artist and
On the other hand Queen Vic- of taste. Edward VII., still man kept in check but with infinitely toria seems rather to have enjoy- more sublety by the Queen, ed the homage, except for Lord George V., and, finally, Edward Rolle's infirmities; she noted VIII., are all shown in admirably that it was "very fine. balanced portraits during their a pretty ceremony; they first all grooming for kingship. Sir touch the crown and then kiss George writes simply and with my hand.
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