“Get leave to work In this world,--’tis the best you get at all; For God in cursing gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, ‘Sweat For foreheads;’ men say, ‘Crowns:’ and so we are crowned, Ay, gashed by some tormenting circle of steel Which snaps with a secret spring. Get work, get work; Be sure ’tis better than what you work to get.” The year preceding the death of the Prince Consort had been, perhaps, fuller than ever of public and private interests. In the autumn of 1860, the Queen and her husband met their daughter, Princess Frederick William of Prussia, with her two children, at Coburg. This was the first sight the Queen had of her grandson, “Dear little William, ... such a darling, and so intelligent; ... a very pretty, clever child.” During this visit to Coburg the Prince was in a serious carriage accident, from which, however, he escaped almost uninjured. The Queen’s thankfulness is more touching by the light of after events. She gave 1,200 florins to found an annual gift for apprenticing young men and women in Coburg, to be distributed every year on the anniversary of her husband’s escape. Tours had been arranged, and were taking place in 1860, for the Prince of Wales in Canada and the United States, and for Prince Alfred in Cape Colony; the parents constantly received the most gratifying news of the impression made by their sons, and the great loyalty their visits had called forth. Most courteous and cordial letters on the subject of the Prince of Wales’s visit were exchanged between the Queen and the President of the United States. The Queen addressed the President as “My good Friend,” being the nearest approach which the circumstances admitted to the exclusively royal “_mon cher frère_.” Special and sympathetic reference was made in both letters to the young Prince’s visit to the tomb of Washington. Arrangements were made by the Prince Consort for the Prince of Wales’s residence on his return from America for a year at the University of Cambridge. Before this, for the ostensible purpose of allowing the Prince of Wales to attend the German military manœuvres, it was arranged that he should have the opportunity of making the acquaintance of the Princess Alexandra of Denmark. The Prince Consort notes with obvious satisfaction in his diary “that the young people seem to have taken a warm liking for one another.” Plans were also made during this autumn for a visit by the Prince of Wales to the Holy Land.