She was fat and kinda ugly too.
Anyway, it's true she had an enormous crush on him, I am astonished to see almost anyone cared to read about it, because
almost all the biographies of Victoria and Melbourne mention they had a romantic friendship or romantic feelings for each other, that she was his last love and he her first, etc.... including the most important and famous ones.
“she could hardly bear to have him out of her sight. It was noticed that her eyes followed him wherever he moved; when he left the room, she would give a slight, involuntary sigh. If he were ill for a day, she would announce herself ‘quite annoyed’ and ‘put out’. If she thought that one of her ladies was monopolizing him at the dinner table, she would become extremely jealous. When she considered that he was spending too much time with the famous Whig hostess, Lady Holland, she accused him of finding the ageing Lady Holland more attractive than herself”
(Theo Aronson, Heart of a Queen: Queen Victoria’s romantic attachments)
“the Queen amused him and touched him and stirred his admiration and won his heart. For though his feeling for her was no so rapturous and unbridled as was hers for him, yet if went far deeper… at once his Sovereign, his daughter and the last love of his life, Queen Victoria inspired Melbourne with a sentiment tenderer if not more vehement the he had ever felt before”
(David Cecil, Lord M, 1954)
<I cannot say, though I feel confident of our success, HOW low, HOW sad I feel, when I think of the POSSIBILITY of this excellent and truly kind man not remaining my Minister! Yet I trust fervently that He who has so wonderfully protected me through such manifold difficulties will not now desert me! I should have liked to have expressed to Lord M. my anxiety, but the tears were nearer than words throughout the time I saw him and I felt I should have choked, had I attempted to say anything”.
<what is worse of all is being deprived of seeing Lord Melbourne as she used to>
<I really thought my heart would break; he was standing near te window; I took that dear hand of his and sobbed and grasped his hand in both mine and looked at him and sobbed out “you will not forsake me?”; I held his hand for a while, unable to let go and he gave me such a look of kindness, pity and affection and could hardly utter for tears ‘Oh! no ‘in such a touching voice>
<you don’t know what a dreadful thing this is for me>
<the state of agony, grief and despair into which this placed me may be easier imagined than described. all, all my happiness gone! I felt quite in despair and I did nothing but cry>
(Queen Victoria in her Journal about the bedchamber crisis)
"It will be such happiness to me to have that dear kind friend's face which I do like and admire so. His face is so handsome and his expression and there is his air.." (Queen Victoria in her diary talking about a portrait she commissioned where she and lord Melbourne are riding together)
See in detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFLyOZc5B1k
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