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The Prince of Wales. their daughters, always accompanied them; and the Royal children's happiest holidays were spent at Charlottenburg as the welcome guests of their grandparents, the King and Queen of Denmark.

When in England the Royal children naturally lived either at Marlborough House or at Sandringham; and we learn that nothing could be simpler than the way in which Prince George and his elder brother were brought up. The Princess herself took not only the keenest, but the most practical and personal, interest in all that concerned her little ones; every moment of her time that could be spared from more onerous duties was given by her to her children. She and the Prince began the day by breakfasting en famille, and the first lesson given by both their Royal Highnesses to Prince George, was that of showing perfect courtesy to those about him. The servants addressed the sons of the house simply as "Prince"; and perhaps the only difference between their training and that of ordinary British children of the upper class was that special attention was paid, from the first moment they could speak, to the acquirement of foreign languages. We are told