Queen Adelaide was a woman of a deeply affectionate disposition, sensible, sympathetic, and religious.

She had a very definite ideal of the duties of a wife and a Queen; she made it her pleasure to meet and anticipate, as far as possible, her husband's wishes; and her husband, hasty and choleric though he was, repaid her with tender affection.

To such an extent did the Queen merge her views in those of her husband, that she passed at one time through a period of general unpopularity.
It was believed that she was adverse to Reform, and used her influence against it.

She was mobbed in the streets at the time when the Reform agitation was at its height; and it is said that when the Melbourne Ministry of 1834 was dismissed, London was (owing to an unjustifiable communication of Lord Brougham to the _Times_) placarded with posters bearing the words, "The Queen has done it all!" It is a pathetic instance of the irony of fate that Queen Adelaide should have thus been supposed to desire to take an active part in politics.

It is obvious, from her letters, that she had practically no political views at all, except a gentle distrust of all proposed changes, social or political.