I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

To his secretary, Frederick Ponsonby, after Ponsonby suggested going with Edward in a tailcoat. Reported in Philip Magnus, King Edward the Seventh (London: John Murray, 1964), ch. 19, p. 365 · Christopher Hibbert, The Royal Victorians: King Edward VII, His Family and Friends (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1976), p. 195