Show I II 1 II i i King Not a Figurehead i 1 I J II Nothing could be bd more emphatic than the n ll language put Into the tile n of ot King irig Edward by thu those c Including ln Viscount Via Vis count who Esher who have Juc undertaken to lo say why his maje majesty ry ordered the publication pub pub- o of the time late Queen Victorias Victoria's let lot I tOre tors The Ibe kings king's real object Is to La proclaim proclaim proclaim pro pro- claim the fact tact that he lie Is no more mere figurehead fig fig- id ad any allY more moore thou than was his lila mother r Edward VII claims lo to be a constitutional king In tho tim strictest of or the word vord His Ills mother was a n. constitutional queen i He lie and antI she for tor all that have insisted upon guiding the tho foreign relations rein rela ions of the British empire He tIc and ond she ime claims supremacy over 1 time the arm army To fo elucidate this point ot or vIew lew Viscount Esher Was v commanded to run through tho letters len left left left-by- by b- Victoria They had been bound Into stout volumes to the number of or hundreds s The rime mere merc labor laboc Of or copying those portions of the correspondence correI corre corre- i I that prove proved available for Cor forI I publication took the t time me of or 30 young oung women typewriters for weeks Victoria seems to have havo dealt with her hor papers vcr very methodically methodical Simo Iho formed Orane tin the habit In early days of or preserving her private letters and amid after her accession lun lunt t to tho throne all aU her official papers were yero similarly treated and antI bound Into luto volumes An elaborate system of classification was ns lilt hit upon b by tic the prince consort who annotated and antI ind inel in- in d el with his own royal hand band until there thelo ha had accumulated what has well weB been called ll the time most extraordinary s series rles of or state documents in itt tho time world King icing Edward clung tenaciously I to his I purpose that thai only emily such portions of or this mass of or matter as would woul son serve e the end he Ime had In view t would be given pcb pcb- There Thero stood re revealed last Jast month in iii consequence what w the the- preface to this cori calls tho tho ho Inner workings wo S of pc c. c tIme unwritten of J LIt tI f Z Ir-Z mm-d mm I rot d delicate equipoise l Of rth ih- ih I ot dt 7 OU r un i nur I ThiO 1110 II animation UtH f or let let- resides cs III in tt this ls T r revelation King E Edward since shire he has lias inherited ills his I mothers mother's throne has s inherited his bis mothers mother's pow power r lIe He is too evidently yielding it Il In iii his lila mothers mother's spirIt And nd Victoria was no figurehead whatever her people and antI the outside world worl may l have e been allowed to tao tako for granted L Literature |