Edward VII - The Playboy Emperor of India and "Uncle of Europe".

Edward VII - The Playboy Emperor of India and "Uncle of Europe". 

Rafael Alberto Vilagut, A cross-cultural manager - ravilagut@ymail.com CEO and founder of the 2nd Chance M2O Movement. Telegram/youtube @ralviv, 25-04-2023.

 

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and nicknamed "Bertie", Edward was related to royalty throughout Europe.

 

Edward was related to nearly every other European monarch, and came to be known as the "uncle of Europe".  German Emperor Wilhelm II and Emperor Nicholas II of Russia were his nephews; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, and Empress Alexandra of Russia were his nieces; King Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew and his son-in-law; kings Frederick VIII of Denmark and George I of Greece were his brothers-in-law; kings Albert I of Belgium, Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal were his second cousins. Edward doted on his grandchildren, and indulged them, to the consternation of their governesses. However, there was one relation whom Edward did not like: Wilhelm II. His difficult relationship with his nephew exacerbated the tensions between Germany and Britain.

 

He was Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne for almost 60 years. During the long reign of his mother, he was largely excluded from political influence and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite. 

 

He travelled throughout Britain performing ceremonial public duties and represented Britain on visits abroad. His tours of North America in 1860 and of the Indian subcontinent in 1875 proved popular successes, but despite public approval, his reputation as a playboy prince soured his relationship with his mother.

As king, Edward played a role in the modernization of the British Home Fleet and the reorganization of the British Army after the Second Boer War of 1899–1902. 

 

He re-instituted traditional ceremonies as public displays and broadened the range of people with whom royalty socialized. He fostered good relations between Britain and other European countries, especially France, for which he was popularly called "Peacemaker", but his relationship with his nephew, the German Emperor Wilhelm II, was poor. 

 

The Edwardian era, which covered Edward's reign and was named after him, coincided with the start of a new century and heralded significant changes in technology and society, including steam turbine propulsion and the rise of socialism. 

 

He died in 1910 in the midst of a constitutional crisis that was resolved the following year by the Parliament Act 1911, which restricted the power of the unelected House of Lords. Edward was succeeded by his only surviving son, George V. 

 

Albert was born on Aug 26 1819. Albert died on Dec 14 1861; he was 42.  On Feb 10 1840, when Albert was 20, he married Victoria.
They had the following children.
i. Alfred DUKE OF SAXE-COBURG AND GOTHA (1844 - 1900).
ii. Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa PRINCESA REAL (1840 - 1901).
iii. Edward VII KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1841 - 1910).
iv. Alice GRAND DUCHESS OF HESSE AND BY RHINE (1843 - 1878).
v. Helena PRINCESS CHRISTIAN OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN (1846 - 1923).
vi. Louise DUCHESS OF ARGYLL (1848 - 1939).
vii. Arthur DUKE OF CONNAUGHT AND STRATHEARN (1850 - 1942).
viii. Leopold DUKE OF ALBANY (1853 - 1884).
ix. Beatrice OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1857 - 1944).

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