We are now able to form a more exact estimate, for the Ducal archives at Coburg and the Brandenburg-Prussian archives at Charlottenburg have recently been investigated by Dr. Kurt Jagow with valuable results which have taken shape in a volume, "Letters of the Prince Consort."
"Most of the 350 letters and memor-of anda see Windsor archives, which has given permission to They were written by the to the Queen during their engagement, when he was enjoying a sunshine which was only clouded by the foreboding that he would have to assert his independence very vigorously if he was to be master of the house as well as husband of the Dr. Jagow's editing is very well done. But he writes from a foreign angle of vision, and few English readers will be willing to allow his bold claim that "it is in essence due to the merits of the German Prince who for less than two decades sat upon. or rather stood by, the throne of England, as the faithful guardian of the Crown, that today the British monarchy is able to command the power, prestige and internal strength required by the British Empire to hold together its self-governing nations and to take rank as a world Power" That is Teutonic exaggeration; Dr. Jagow's suggestion that the British Constitutional monarchy is really the handiwork of the Prince Consort is fantastic.
Majesty máy rely on me watching Sir E. Lyons with anxious attention and seizing upon any action of his not in conformity with his duties to demand his immediate recall—Manifestly, therefore, Downing Street's dislike of the Prince's foreign correspondence was not wholly without foundation.
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