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In the afternoon they set off for the brief honeymoon at Windsor.

Soon she was writing to Uncle Leopold:

‘… I am the happiest being that ever existed. I do not think it possible for anyone in the world to be happier or as happy as I am. He is an Angel … to look in those dear eyes and that dear sunny face is enough to make me adore him …’

Albert came to look over her shoulder as she wrote.

He smiled as he read. Why had he had any qualms? Her affection was so wholehearted. He would mould her to his ways.

‘Oh Albert,’ she cried, ‘how wonderfully happy I am! What joy to be here … with you … and to forget for a brief time that I am the Queen.’

If those were ominous words, he did not notice.

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