Excerpt From Children Of The Empire

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