The letters reveal, as no other documents could do, the monarchical point of view.

However intimate may be the relations between a Sovereign and a subject, there is bound to appear a certain discretion, and even condescension, on the one hand, and on the other a due degree of deference.

But here we have the remarkable spectacle of two monarchs, both of eminent sagacity, and both, so to speak, frankly interested in the task of constitutional government, corresponding freely on all the difficulties and problems inseparable from their momentous task, and with an immense sense of their weighty responsibilities.

It is impossible to exaggerate the deep and abiding interest of such a correspondence; and the seriousness, the devotion, the public spirit that are displayed, without affectation or calculated impressiveness, make the whole series of letters singularly memorable.
The King of the Belgians had married Princess Louise of Orleans, daughter of Louis Philippe, in 1832.

She was only seven years older than the Princess Victoria, who grew to regard her with the tenderest affection.
The letters from Queen Louise are very numerous.