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| | Prophets, Priests and Kings - King Edward VII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Now, King Edward is, above everything else, a very human man. He is not deceived by the pomp and circumstance in the midst of which it has been his lot to live, for he has no illusions. |
 | | It is as irrational as King Theebaw, who, when his favourite wife lay sick unto death, prayed fervently to his gods and made extravagant promises of endowment of the temple, and, when she died, massed his artillery in front of the temple and bombarded it without mercy. |
 | | It is just, too, to remember that the King's private life is not only subject to a merciless scrutiny that the lives, of his people are fortunately spared, and to the prurient gossip of every club idler; but that his position denies him the defence which the law accords to humbler people. |
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