panied by friends and hosts such as the
late Duke of Sutherland, his son-in-law, the Duke of Fife, Mr. Mackenzie
of Kintail and Colonel Farquharson of Invercauld. Going out from
Abergeldie, or Balmoral, or Mar Lodge on a stalking expedition, the
Prince cared neither for exposure to bad weather, nor severe exertion,
so long as he could return with a bag of several head of deer. With the
German Emperor and the late Duke of Coburg he enjoyed splendid sport in
the vast forests of Central Europe from time to time, and with Baron
Hirsch, on his great Hungarian estates, he had hunted deer, chamois,
wild boar and roebuck, as he had shot game in America, hunted tigers and
elephants in India, shot crocodiles in Egypt and hunted in the forests
of Ceylon or Denmark.

[Illustration: THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER AND HIS UNCLE
Photograph by Paul Thompson, New York.

The Rt. Hon. David Lloyd-George (on the right), whose Radical budget
made him the storm-centre of England at the time of King Edward's
illness and death, is here shown at his new Welsh home with his uncle,
Richard Lloyd, who adopted the future statesman after his father's death
and educated him.]

[Illustration: THREE PROMINENT MEMBERS OF KING EDWARD'S LAST CABINET
Photograph by Paul Thompson, New York.

Descending the steps are: at the left, Sir Edward Grey, Bart., Foreign
Secretary; in centre, Rt. Hon. Winston Spencer Churchill, President,
Board of Trade; at right, the Earl of Crewe, Colonial Secretary and Lord
Privy Seal.]

[Illustration: THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Who was designated by President Taft as Special Ambassador to represent
the United States at the Funeral of King Edward VII.]

[Illustration: KING EDWARD'S LAST TRIP ABROAD

This photograph was taken at the railway station in Paris when the King
was on his way to Biarritz (on the Atlantic border between Spain and
France). Only a few days after his return from this journey he was taken
fatally ill.]

CHAPTER XIV.

Habits and Character of the Prince

During forty years of his career as Prince of Wales, King Edward VII.
was probably the most talked-of man in the United Kingdom. Good-natured
stories, ill-natured anecdotes, criticisms grading down from the
malicious to the very mild, praise ranging from the fulsome to the
feeble point, falsehoods great and falsehoods small, have found currency
not confined to the English language and ranging through "yarns" of
gutter journals in London, Pari