Edward VII, in full Albert Edward, (born November 9, 1841, London, England died May 6, 1910, London), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions and emperor of India from 1901, an immensely popular and affable sovereign and a leader of society. Albert Edward was the second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. When he was one month old, Bertie, as he was called by his family, was created prince of Wales and earl of Chester by his mother. He was placed on a demanding education
Edward VII, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions and emperor of India from 1901. An immensely popular and affable sovereign and a leader of society, he was the second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Queen Victoria, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1876–1901), who gave her name to an era, the Victorian Age. During her reign with her husband, Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the British monarchy took on its modern ceremonial character.
Two Hundred Years of Errors and Misjudgments at The Guardian
Commentary
The baneful leftist British newspaper, The Guardian, is celebrating its 200th anniversary, and as part of an extensive exercise in reflective self-adulation, it produced on May 7 an exposé of what it considered to be the worst editorial errors of judgment it had committed in these 200 years.
The relevance of this to American readers is that The Guardian persists in imagining that it has some insight into American political affairs, though it has throughout its history been and remains up to the most recent days, an inexhaustible source of asinine misrepresentations of what happens in U.S. politics.