TIL that after Lord Palmerston's death, Queen Victoria wrote that she had never liked or respected him: "Strange, and solemn to think of that strong, determined man, with so much worldly ambition – gone! He had often worried and distressed us, though as Pr. Minister he had behaved very well."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston
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