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Edward VII

My brood mare.

She was pregnant 6 times before the age of 26. “Bertie” as he was called by his family, was the least favorite child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. When Prince of Wales, he ran around with women and was involved with many scandals. His parents forced him to marry Alexandra, a respectable German princess. However, he had little respect for her, as this quotation demonstrates.

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… and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas

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Only two people are permitted to refer to themselves as "We"—a king, and a man with a tapeworm inside of him.

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No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

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You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

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I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

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I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

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I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.

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Edward VII

Born: November 9, 1841
Died: May 6, 1910
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Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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