. V. R. I. : Queen Victoria, her life and empire. uth and sex. Peel certainly took the ladies very seriously! He prob-ably thought that the Queen would have few strong opin-ions of her own, and would not be able to keep her ownbalance of judgment if clever and designing women wereable to effect a permanent lodgment in her seems odd that such fears should have carried Peel sofar. The sensible and practical result of the matter thenso hotly debated has been that the Mistress of the Robes,who presides over the ladies of the household, is changedwith each administration, but that the
. V. R. I. : Queen Victoria, her life and empire. uth and sex. Peel certainly took the ladies very seriously! He prob-ably thought that the Queen would have few strong opin-ions of her own, and would not be able to keep her ownbalance of judgment if clever and designing women wereable to effect a permanent lodgment in her seems odd that such fears should have carried Peel sofar. The sensible and practical result of the matter thenso hotly debated has been that the Mistress of the Robes,who presides over the ladies of the household, is changedwith each administration, but that the others are not, theiroffices not being regarded as so political as are several ofthe places held by men. Wives and nearest relatives ofministers are, however, no longer chosen. In 1839 the Queen became engaged to Prince have already given some account of the first visit ofthe Prince and his brother to Kensington Palace in 1836,when a decidedly favorable impression was produced inthe mind of the Princess Victoria. An occasional cor- 100. PRINCE ALBERT AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-FOUR(From a miniature by Robert Thorburn) BETROTHAL AND MARRIAGE respondence was kept up, and on the accession of the QueenPrince Albert was one of the first to write and congratulateher. The cares of state and the numerous distractions at-tendant upon exalted position stood in the way of closeracquaintance until 1839, when King Leopold arrangeda second visit of the Coburg princes to their English cousin. The best account of this visit and of what resulted fromit will be found in the letters and diaries which the Queenallowed to be made public on the subject of her Leopold wrote a kindly letter of introduction for theCoburg princes to take to England: Laeken, October 8,1839. My dearest Victoria, Your cousins will be themselves the bearers of theselines. I recommend them to your bienveillance. Theyare good and honest creatures, deserving your kindness,and not pedantic, but really sensibl
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