The principality of Coburg, with its romantic scenery and its well-behaved inhabitants, particularly delighted her; and when she woke up one morning to find herself in "dear Rosenau, my Albert's birthplace," it was "like a beautiful dream." On her return home, she expatiated, in a letter to King Leopold, upon the pleasures of the trip, dwelling especially upon the intensity of her affection for Albert's native land.

"I have a feeling," she said, "for our dear little Germany, which I cannot describe.

I felt it at Rosenau so much.

It is a something which touches me, and which goes to my heart, and makes me inclined to cry.

I never felt at any other place that sort of pensive pleasure and peace which I felt there.