14 MAY 1910, Page 3

In the House of Lords Lord Crewe remarked upon the

difficulties which had met King Edward in succeeding, "at a comparatively advanced age, to the great Queen who had become in her lifetime almost a legendary figure." King Edward was the personal friend of his people, and "no British Sovereign has ever known and conversed with in the course of his life so many different classes of his subjects and so many individuals of those classes." Lord Lansdowne commented especially on the international character of the loss, and declared that "there is not a Chancellerie in Europe which does not recognise that by the death of King Edward VII. a great international force has been removed from the public affairs of Europe."