She would follow the Prince in all things.

He had refused to delegate authority; he had examined into every detail with his own eyes; he had made it a rule never to sign a paper without having first, not merely read it, but made notes on it too.

She would do the same.

She sat from morning till night surrounded by huge heaps of despatch--boxes, reading and writing at her desk--at her desk, alas! which stood alone now in the room.
Within two years of Albert's death a violent disturbance in foreign politics put Victoria's faithfulness to a crucial test.

The fearful Schleswig-Holstein dispute, which had been smouldering for more than a decade, showed signs of bursting out into conflagration.