Show royal wife rebuked by prince consort albert prince consort of queen victoria filled a difficult thankless office with tact and success but bui was misunderstood and disliked by englishmen of his generation almost without exception according to a writer in the kansas hansas city star drought brought from an insignificant german town and comparative poverty at the age of twenty lie he found himself king in all but name of the most powerful country and wedded to a very trying wife in public the tha queen displayed adoration and a sentimental solicitude for or him in private she was petulant and exacting but he bore tits hla trials patiently and once in a while gave his wife a quiet and effective lesson 1 one evening while lie he was dining with the council of tile the royal academy a messenger arrived from froin victoria saying that she desired tits ills presence at buckingham palace the merely nodded halt half an hour later a second messenger said tiro the queen was waiting and required the prince to return at once again lie he merely nodded in another thirty minutes nit arrived a peremptory order the queen commands your royal highness return cool and phlegmatic as over avor even under this final humiliation the prince again dismissed the messenger er with a nod lie ile remained with ills hosts of the evening and slee sleeping P in 9 elsewhere el where lid did not return to the palace that slight night |