![]() ![]() While the Queen's feelings for Melbourne, as Greville suggested, may have been sexual, 'though she did not know it', she herself said that she loved him 'like a father'. ![]() Nor did she mind when he warned her that, having inherited a tendency to plumpness from her German forebears, she was liable to grow very fat. Melbourne endeavoured to curb her tendency to intolerance, and to a truthful directness that verged on tactlessness, but the advice was given in such a kind and fatherly way that she never resented it. Her smallness, of which she was continually conscious, was a positive advantage to a queen her inexperience was all to the good: she came to her duties fresh and unprejudiced. Her shyness, he assured her, was not only appealing, it was indicative of a sensitive temperament. Victoria basked in Melbourne's skilful flattery. ![]()
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