He was a sojourner at Windsor, and a visitor at Balmoral.

He delighted in gold sticks, and was never so happy as when holding some cap of maintenance or spur of precedence with due dignity and acknowledged grace in the presence of all the Court.
His means had been somewhat embarrassed by early extravagance; and, therefore, as it was to his taste to shine, it suited him to shine at the cost of the Court rather than at his own.
The Duke of Omnium was a Whig of a very different calibre.

He rarely went near the presence of majesty, and when he did do so, he did it merely as a disagreeable duty incident to his position.

He was very willing that the Queen should be queen so long as he was allowed to be Duke of Omnium.

Nor had he begrudged Prince Albert any of his honours till he was called Prince Consort.