Edward VII was proclaimed King of Ireland.
I should have known, but did not, that coronations for Ireland were separate. I simply assumed that the coronation was for the entire United Kingdom.
Emily Hobhouse arrived at Bloemfontein concentration camp to report on conditions. A sample of her writing:
They went to sleep without any provision having been made for them and without anything to eat or to drink. I saw crowds of them along railway lines in bitterly cold weather, in pouring rain–hungry, sick, dying and dead. Soap was not dispensed. The water supply was inadequate. No bedstead or mattress was procurable. Fuel was scarce and had to be collected from the green bushes on the opes of the kopjes (small hills) by the people themselves. The rations were extremely meagre and when, as I frequently experienced, the actual quantity dispensed fell short of the amount prescribed, it simply meant famine.
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