Now, though I know you never would, still, if you were a Peer, they would all say, the Prince meant to play a political part.

I know you never would!" In reality, she was not quite so certain; but she wished Albert to understand her views.
He would, she hoped, make a perfect husband; but, as for governing the country, he would see that she and Lord M.between them could manage that very well, without his help.
But it was not only in politics that the Prince discovered that the part cut out for him was a negligible one.

Even as a husband, he found, his functions were to be of an extremely limited kind.

Over the whole of Victoria's private life the Baroness reigned supreme; and she had not the slightest intention of allowing that supremacy to be diminished by one iota.

Since the accession, her power had greatly increased.