Excerpt from The Life and Times of King Edward VII, Vol. 4 King Opens Parliament in State - Preparing for the Coronation - A Fever of Anticipation - Peace Proclaimed in South Africa - A State Service in St. Paul's Cathedral - The World Gathers in London - The Decorations in the Abbey - Queen Alexandra's Parties Edward VII. At Aldershot - Premonitions of Illness - Reassuring News - The Court comes to London - The Buckingham Palace Banquet - Another Breakdown - A Decorated Metropolis - The Illness is Announced - watching the Bulletins - Days of Anxiety; Nights of Suspense Satisfactory Progress - The King Convalescent - A Privy Council at sea-back at Buckingham Palace - General Rejoicings - The King's Letter The Eve of the Coronation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.