SUMMARY OF THE PRINCE's TOUR
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
Summary
The visit of the Prince of Wales to the British Provinces and the United States is one of those great historical events which will be handed down to posterity for all time, and be treasured up by the peoples of the two nations forever.
The first inception of the Prince's visit, it may be remembered, was from the Canadians themselves, who petitioned the Queen to send one of the royal family, as she herself would not be able to attend, to inaugurate the opening of the Victoria Bridge at Montreal. It certainly was never contemplated that the heir apparent would be selected for that purpose—popular expectation being satisfied with some smaller personage. It pleased the Queen, however, to send the young Prince of Wales himself to visit the Western possessions of his imperial mother, and at the same time to pay a visit to the United States. Never has monarch arrived at so wise a determination; for the lessons to be derived from the visit of the young Albert Edward to America can hardly fail to impress the future King Edward the Seventh in such a manner as to lead to the full recognition of the rights of the people, throughout his illimitable dominions, on which, according to popular tradition, the sun never sets.
It will be remembered that, in accordance with this arrangement, President Buchanan wrote an autograph letter to the Queen, inviting the young Prince to visit Washington and the United States in general, in his passage through the most interesting portions of the continent.
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- Royalty in the New WorldOr, the Prince of Wales in America, pp. 248 - 264Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009