For in truth Albert was a far more interesting personage than the public dreamed.

By a curious irony an impeccable waxwork had been fixed by the Queen's love in the popular imagination, while the creature whom it represented--the real creature, so full of energy and stress and torment, so mysterious and so unhappy, and so fallible and so very human--had altogether disappeared.
IV Words and books may be ambiguous memorials; but who can misinterpret the visible solidity of bronze and stone?
At Frogmore, near Windsor, where her mother was buried, Victoria constructed, at the cost of L200,000, a vast and elaborate mausoleum for herself and her husband.

But that was a private and domestic monument, and the Queen desired that wherever her subjects might be gathered together they should be reminded of the Prince.

Her desire was gratified; all over the country--at Aberdeen, at Perth, and at Wolverhampton--statues of the Prince were erected; and the Queen, making an exception to her rule of retirement, unveiled them herself.

Nor did the capital lag behind.