The young Prince seems to have been adored as a child by all, whether relatives or others, who came in contact with him. "He leads captive," said his fond mother, when he was two years old, "all hearts by his beauty and gentle grace." After the sad separation of his father from his mother, the Prince was brought up largely under the care of his father's mother, whom the Queen describes, from personal recollection, as "a most remarkable woman, with a most powerful, energetic, almost masculine mind, accompanied with great tenderness of heart, and extreme love for nature." Of an evening she used to tell to her two grandchildren, Ernest and Albert, the stories of Sir Walter Scott's novels, and, when they were old enough, employed them in writing letters to her dictation. She fondly described Albert, when he was not yet two years old, by the pet, diminutive name, "Alberinchen." And she says--"With his large blue eyes and dimpled cheeks, he is bewitching, forward, and quick as a weasel. He can already say everything." The step-maternal grandmother of the Prince too, second wife of his maternal grandfather, was sensible, kindly, and good, and took an interest in the children by no means inferior to that displayed by their own grandmother. With the former lady they spent very much of their time in their early years, at Gotha, and at her mansion in the vicinity of that town. When Albert was not yet four years old he, with his brother, was removed to the care of a tutor, Herr Florschuetz, who most admirably discharged his duties, which he continued to fulfil until his pupils had become young men. With the assistance of masters for special subjects, he conducted the whole of their early educational training, and continued to control their studies until they left the University of Bonn. The two brothers, spite of the difference of about a twelvemonth in their ages, pursued all studies in common, and the closest brotherly love and amity united them from first to last. [Sidenote: BOYHOOD OF PRINCE ALBERT] The younger Prince was not nearly so robust as his brother, but his intellect was more vigorous, and his force of will decidedly greater; "he always held," said his uncle Leopold, "accordingly, a certain sway over his elder brother, who rather kindly submitted to it." The Princes were not much, in their early years, with their father, who was much from home, especially when settling the junction of the duchy of Gotha with his own of Coburg. The former he succeeded to partly in right of his wife, and partly by a mutual compact of exchange of territory, entered into with other reigning princes of the old Saxon stock. This period was passed by the Princes at Rosenau, with their tutor, varied by visits to the mansions of the two grandmothers.