Albert hardly interested her at all.
In later life the Queen declared that she had never for a moment dreamt of marrying anyone but her cousin; her letters and diaries tell a very different story.

On August 26, 1837, she wrote in her journal: "To-day is my dearest cousin Albert's 18th birthday, and I pray Heaven to pour its choicest blessings on his beloved head!" In the subsequent years, however, the date passes unnoticed.

It had been arranged that Stockmar should accompany the Prince to Italy, and the faithful Baron left her side for that purpose.

He wrote to her more than once with sympathetic descriptions of his young companion; but her mind was by this time made up.

She liked and admired Albert very much, but she did not want to marry him.