King Edward often refereed to me “as the man who would not let him live past 69.” On the occasion when I first had the honour of meeting him as Prince of Wales in Lady Arthur Paget’s house, he asked me to “work out his numbers”. I did so and explained the reason his “fadic” or “root” numbers were the 6 and the 9. I then told him that when these two numbers came together would be his fatal year, and further that the event should take place on a day making the number 6 in a month governed by the 6, which would be May. He never forgot my prediction, and it is my melancholy privilege to record that the last occasion when I had any conversation with his late Majesty was a few weeks before his death. He was joining the royal train at Victoria to make his usual journey to the Continent when he noticed me,

I happening also to be going abroad. He sent an equerry to call me, and he said, smiling broadly:

“Well,’Cheiro,’ I’m still alive, as you see, but from that warning of yours, as I am now in my 69th year, I must take care” – a reference to the fact that according to the fadic system of numbers his 69th year was fro him a dangerous year. He then spoke briefly of his racing wagers, and concluded by emphasizing how remarkably my advice had been crowned by success.

Alas, in a few short weeks he returned to Buckingham Palace, and the public heard with consternation of his illness, which proved fatal. On May 6th – in his 69th year, the first time that these “fadic” numbers came together – my prediction was fulfilled.

When I had the honour of a prolonged conversation with his Majesty Edward VII some years previous to his death, he turned with peculiar interest to the subject of numbers and how curiously they seemed to “follow him about.”

He told me that while in Berlin in I889 he had had some conversation on the subject with a man named Streltz, a very noted occultist, who predicted many events in the life of the ex-Kaiser. But even Streltz did not seem able to explain to his royal inquirer the mystery of fadic or fatalistic numbers that appear to govern various lives. My various interviews with King Edward VII are gone into more fully in my book of Memoirs called Confessions: Memoirs of a Modern Seer.

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