However, now in a position of power, Victoria, aged 18, gave her mother a remote apartment away from her own in the Palace, and banished Conroy from her presence. Though the new Queen had decided to make Buckingham Palace her principle residence, her mother followed her to the palace this was partly to do with social convention, that an unmarried woman lived with her parents, but also because the Duchess wanted to keep an eye on her daughter’s reign. Just a year later, William IV died and Victoria became Queen in June 1837. From her diaries, Victoria – quite contrary to the image portrayed in later years – was known to enjoy sex, and made note of Albert’s thighs in tight trousers on the day he wore white pantaloons with ‘nothing under them’.Īn engagement was not pushed at the time, as both parties were just 17, but the family expected a relationship to blossom.
He is so sensible, so kind, and so good, and so amiable too,” also commenting on his ‘pretty mouth’ and ‘beautiful figure, broad in the shoulders and a fine waist’. Besotted with her cousin, she further sang his praises: “He possesses every quality that could be desired to render me perfectly happy. Victoria wrote to her uncle Leopold, thanking him for introducing the couple and ‘for the prospect of great happiness’.
In contrast she described Prince Alexander’s appearance as ‘very plain’. The young Victoria was very much attracted to Albert, noting his blue eyes and fine physique Bradford Timeline)
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