I am much grieved that you feel disappointed about my wish respecting your gentlemen, but very glad that you consent to it, and that you feel confidence in my choice.
Respecting the Treasurer, my dearest Albert, I have already written at great length in my last letter, so I will not say much more about it to-day, but I will just observe that, tho' I fully understand (indeed no one could feel more for you in the very trying position you will be placed in than I do) your feelings, it is absolutely necessary that an Englishman should be at the head of your affairs; therefore (tho' I will not force Mr.Anson on you) I ask you if it is not better to take a man in whom I have confidence, and whom I know well enough to trust perfectly, than a man who is quite a stranger, and whom I know nothing of ?_ I am very glad that your father knows Lord Grosvenor.

As to the Tories, I am still in a rage;[81] they abuse and grumble incessantly in the most incredible manner.
I will tell good Lord Melbourne that you are very grateful.

That you will write to him is very nice of you, and makes me glad.

I shall always feel very happy if you, my dearest Albert, will be very friendly to this good and just man; and I am convinced that, when you will know him more intimately, you will be as fond of him as I am.
No one is more abused by bad people than Lord M .-- _and nobody is so forgiving_....
I have just learned that my two uncles, the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge (_to whom Lord M.had written_) _very willingly consent to let you take precedence of them; it was, of course, necessary to ask them about it...._ [Footnote 81: _Lit._ raging (_wuthend_).

The phrase was a favourite one of King Leopold's, from whom the Queen had adopted it.] _Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ WINDSOR CASTLE, _27th December 1839._ MY DEAR UNCLE,--Just two words (though you don't deserve _half a one_, as your silence is unpardonable) to say I have just heard from Albert, who, I am glad to say, consents to _my_ choosing his people; so _one essential_ point is gained, and we have only the Treasurer to carry now.