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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.

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.

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Originally published in 1875-80, this extensive five-volume biography was commissioned by Queen Victoria to memorialise her late husband.