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Portrait of King Edward VIIVintage Video: Funeral of King Edward VII, 1910
 Updated - Saturday, 22 November, 2003

The funeral of Britain's King Edward VII, on 20 May 1910, was the last occasion upon which the leading figures of European royalty gathered together.

Among those in London for the funeral were Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II; Austria-Hungary's Emperor Franz Josef I; Teddy Roosevelt, representing America; Bulgaria's Tsar Ferdinand I... and also Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination four years later sparked the First World War.

Click here to view footage of the funeral (Windows Media, 90 seconds, 1,076KB).

By 1918 the percentage of women to men working in Britain had risen to 37% from 24% at the start of the war.

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