The relationship with my parents was difficult, to say the
least. My father was physically present but emotionally distant
and difficult. My mother blamed me for my father’s death. I was
twenty and having an affair with a woman with whom they did
not approve. She said that if my personal life hadn’t caused my
father so much stress he would never have gone for a walk in
such foul weather and consequently not have died, but I think
she was being a bit silly about that. In reality, the doctors said he
died of typhoid fever.
King Edward VII, Second Child of Queen Victoria
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