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Rh the time little Princess Victoria came, Prince Edward had grown more philosophic regarding additions to the nursery party. He and Prince Albert occasionally have battles, as all healthy brothers do ; on one occasion their mother on entering the nursery found them having a regular fight, and she was about to have them punished when their father said, "Oh, let them fight it out, they will make the better men for it."

There can be no doubt that Prince Edward's disposition is masterful, but his parents have taken the very sensible course of not perpetually checking him, though every now and then they insist that he should give up to others, especially other children with whom he plays. The second son of their Royal Highnesses was born at York Cottage, Sandringham, on December 14, 1895, at three o'clock in the morning. The date of December 14, associated as it was in the minds of the Royal Family, not only with the death of the Prince Consort, but also with the death of Princess Alice and other terrible bereavements, seemed by this happy event to have its traditional sadness in some measure dispelled. The infant Prince was Rh