This was the Prince Consort's last, as it was in a sense his greatest, service to the country of his adoption; and within little more than a year after baring his head in historical reverence before the tomb of Washington, the Prince of Wales was standing convulsed with grief at the open een aggravated by a visit to see how his grave of his own father, whose illness had.
eldest son' was getting on with his studies which had now been resumed at Cambridge, varied by vacation exercises with the Ist Grenxdier Guards at the Curragh. It said much for his filial piety and tenderness of heart that all present at the funeral of Albert the Good were deeply moved by the inconsolable sorrow of his sous. The Prince of Wales was the chief incurver in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, two ays before Christmas in the year 1861. "As he stood at the grave-side," wrote an eye-witness, "looking down with hands clasped, all his fortitude deserted he burst into a flood of tears, cov his face," until he was led away by the Lord Chamberlain.
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