His appreciation of the Prince had softened her heart; the sincerity and warmth of his nature, which, in private intercourse with those whom he wished to please, had the power of gradually dissipating the awkwardness of his manners, did the rest.

She came in time to regard him with intense feelings of respect and attachment.

She spoke of "our worthy Peel," for whom, she said, she had "an EXTREME admiration" and who had shown himself "a man of unbounded LOYALTY, COURAGE patriotism, and HIGH-MINDEDNESS, and his conduct towards me has been CHIVALROUS almost, I might say." She dreaded his removal from office almost as frantically as she had once dreaded that of Lord M.It would be, she declared, a GREAT CALAMITY.

Six years before, what would she have said, if a prophet had told her that the day would come when she would be horrified by the triumph of the Whigs?
Yet there was no escaping it; she had to face the return of her old friends.

In the ministerial crises of 1845 and 1846, the Prince played a dominating part.