"Lord Melbourne must not think the Queen rash in her conduct...

The Queen felt this was an attempt to see whether she could be led and managed like a child."(*) The Tories were not only wicked but ridiculous.

Peel, having, as she understood, expressed a wish to remove only those members of the Household who were in Parliament, now objected to her Ladies.

"I should like to know," she exclaimed in triumphant scorn, "if they mean to give the Ladies seats in Parliament ?" (*) The exclamation "They wished to treat me like a girl, but I will show them that I am Queen of England!" often quoted as the Queen's, is apocryphal.

It is merely part of Greville's summary of the two letters to Melbourne.