The funeral of Edward VII in May 1910 attracted the largest gathering there had ever been, or ever would be, of European royalty.But the mourner walking in pride of place directly behind the coffin was not one of the nine kings in attendance but a wire fox terrier called Caesar, Edward’s devoted four-legged friend.Edward’s volatile nephew, ’s Kaiser Wilhelm II, was said to have considered playing second fiddle to a dog to be an unforgivable affront. But most of those who watched or read about Caesar’s dignified final journey with his master were enormously moved.
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