Excerpt from The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Vol. 1 Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reason why we smile or sigh. How grave, then, must be his responsibility who ventures to draw for the world a portrait of any of its heroes, which shall be at once warmly sympathetic and austerely just! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Vol. 5 But as none can measure so well the difficulty of my task, so do I know that no one will judge of its fulfilment more generously and forbearingly than Your Majesty, who has throughout, when my heart might otherwise have failed me, given me the best encouragement, by accepting with approval the successive volumes in which I have endeavoured to make the Prince known to the world, - the Prince, of whom Your Majesty, in the first days of supreme grief, wrote to his oldest and his dearest friend, that he was your husband, father, lover, master, friend, adviser, and guide.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, Vol. 4 I have the honor to place in Your Majesty's hands another instalment of the Life of the Prince Consort - another, but still not, as I hoped it might have been, the last. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life of His Royal Highness, the Prince Consort, Vol. 2 I have now the honour to place in Your Majesty's hands the second portion of the narrative of the Life of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. In another volume I hope to complete the work. In writing the Life of the Prince, I have felt that I must write what would be in some measure a history of the time. The duties of his position, as the Prince understood them, made it incumbent upon him to be ever on the watch where the welfare of Your Majesty's kingdom was concerned. The interests of England, abroad as well as at home, were not more dear to Your Majesty than they were to him. To help, so far as in him lay, to uphold these interests, and to keep England true to her great name, and worthy of her great inheritance, was with the Prince, as with Your Majesty, the dearest object of his ambition. Seeking no personal triumph, he was content, and more than content, with strengthening the hands, while lightening the labours, of the Sovereign in whose life his own was merged. But this could only be done by taking an active part in her peculiar toils, and by devoting, like her, his best energies to that day-by-day(vi) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life of His Royal Highness, the Prince Consort, Vol. 3 Madam, When I placed in Your Majesty's hands the second volume of this work, I had hoped to complete it in another volume. But, as I advanced in the my task, I found this to be impossible. No one feels more forcibly than I do the truth of the old Greek saying, that 'a big book is a big evil' - a truth even more important to be borne in mind now than in compact and few. Still, am not without hope that the contents of the following pages will justify my decision to deal in somewhat ample detail with the very interesting period to which they relate. The aim I have set to myself throughout in this biography has been, not to present my own view of the Prince's character, but to place upon record materials by which every careful self. The mass of these materials which Your Majesty has placed at my command is very great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort: Compiled, Under the Direction of Her Majesty, the Queen In regard to the effect of the volume upon the people of England, writes one of the oldest, most devoted, and most honored of the Prince's friends, * should her Maj esty hereafter resolve to publish it, there can not, I think, he the shadow of a doubt, should it ever come before them, that it would exact the loyalty and love of all true-hearted Englishmen Where every thing is so pure, so lovely, and so true, why should not our hon ored and beloved Queen lay Open the innermost recesses of her heart, and thereby fix forever the loyal sympathy of all who have faith in what is good, and hold true Christian allegiance to their God and to their country? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.