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"Florinda" wasn't an exception; Victoria loved giving Albert art of beautiful 2D women, among them William Edward Frost's *L’Allegro* she presented him with on his 29th birthday.
Albert, not to be outdone, returned his queen's enthusiasm with sculpture. For her 23rd birthday, he commissioned Emil Wolff to carve a sculpture of himself as a scantily-clad Greek warrior, which the censored remnants of Victoria's journals call "very beautiful" (judging how she gushes about Albert in the uncensored journals we have, it's likely she actually wrote a good deal more about it) and for her 30th birthday he presented to her Julius Troschel's *La Filatrice Addormentata* (The Sleeping Spinner, who the censored versions of her journals say is "charmingly executed"), which she proudly had placed in the drawing room where she received visitors.
However, of all the 2D his Queen gifted him, Albert declared his favorite was the secret picture that hung in his private study – *Queen Victoria* by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, which she had commissioned for Albert's 24th birthday, in which she is pictured wearing her pendant that contains a lock of his hair. The censored versions of her journal relate his response:
>I cannot say how delighted my beloved Albert was with the Winterhalter picture; the surprise was so great & he thought it so like & so beautifully painted. I felt so happy & so proud to have found something that gave him so much pleasure.
There are lessons here, for those who can hear them.
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