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Excerpt from A History of Our Own Times, Vol. 1 of 4: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Berlin Congress
The closing scenes of King William's life were undoubt edly characterized by some personal dignity. As a rule, sovereigns show that they know how to die. Perhaps the necessary consequence of their training, by virtue of which they come to regard themselves always as the central figures in great State pageantry, is to make them assume a manner of dignity on all occasions when the eyes of their subjects may be supposed to be on them, even if the dignity of bearing is not the free gift of nature. The manners of William IV. Had been, like those of most of his brothers, somewhat rough and overbearing. He had been an unmanageable naval officer. He had again and again disregarded or disobeyed orders, and at last it had been found convenient to Withdraw him from active service altogether, and allow him to rise through the successive.
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