![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is treated, however, at Osborne precisely like any other boy, both by teachers and lads". His mother told the historian, Reginald Brett, that she found her son "very sensitive, and knowing much more of his prospects and responsibilities than she thought. In 1907 he was sent to the naval college at Osborne. Prince Edward (as he was officially known) was early noted for charm and good looks. He himself, in his later autobiographical volumes, stated that he felt unloved, and he never seems to have wished for children of his own." He was bullied by his nanny and, as the eldest child, was the first target of his father's often violently expressed wrath. He was an intelligent child, with something of his father's prodigious memory and an innate, wide-ranging curiosity which his parents failed to harness. ![]() David grew up in a middle-brow context-not deliberately hostile to culture, but also not sensitive to it. Within the family he was always known as David. His biographer, Colin Matthew, has pointed out: "The future king was given the forenames Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, the innovatory use of the four patron saints being intended to emphasize the representative character of the monarchy. As the king's eldest son, Edward therefore became heir to the throne. Edward was the great-grandson of Queen Victoria and his father was George V, who became king of the United Kingdom in 1910. Edward Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was born in Richmond, Surrey, on 23rd June, 1894. ![]()
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