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CHAPTER

I.

THE SON-THE In

Prince Edward as an Undergraduate

A Trip to Germany Rumoured

The Trent Affair Typhoid Fever

Power in the Nation

Some

Ancestry

Points of Racial

and Fears

The Illness

Death

The Funeral Ceremony

The Frince Consort's Marriage

Suggestion

His" Especial

on Egyptian History

The Sights of Cairo

Napoleon

Diagnosed

His Place and

Arrangements

EGYPT

Dr. MacLeod and Queen Victoria Selection of Dr. Stanley

for the Tour Said

Pasha's

Welcome

Some Notes

Mehemet Ali, Ibrahim and Abbas

and the Mamelukes

Edw ard Ascends the Great Pyramid

and Temples at Thebes and Esueh

Consort

II.

Days at Court

Arrival at Alexandria

Fitness

Life in

National and Personal Memorials

IN THE NEAR EAST:

Gloomy

of the Princess Alice

Home

Becomes Serious

of the Prince

CHAPTER THE TOUR

Affinity

The Prince Consort's Indisposition

House

A Curious Presentiment Hopes

Visit from Queen Victoria A Betrothal

Introduction to Princess Alexandra

Making Ready at Marlborough

Copenhagen

as

Camp at the Curragh

and its Result

Alexandra's

FATHER

Among the Ancient Tombs

Up the Nile

Memphis Visited

Back to Alexandria

Off to the Holy Laud

CHAPTER THE TOUR

III.

IN THE NEAR EAST



THE HOLY LAND

Jaffa and its History The Plain of Sharon Sites of Bible Scenes The Royal Entry into the In the Grotto Some of the Sacred Sites Holy City The Church of the Holy Sepulchre In the Mosque of Omar " The Foundation of the World " Bethlehem and the Birth-