Abstract
FROM him to whom much has been given, much shall be required. The moving words with which on the night of December II Prince Edward took leave of his people, his subjects no longer, closed a great career of public usefulness, upon which strong hope for the future had been founded. That valediction, however, stands for far more than that. It marks the end of an epoch in which the relationship of the British Crown to the people has been peculiarly intimate and personal. It is true that the events of that momentous period of stress, which opened on December 2, have left the monarchy unshaken; it is even strengthened; but it would be idle to claim that it is unchanged. With the proclamation of His Majesty King George VI on December 12, a new era begins.
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