 The Queen found it difficult to let go of her daughter , confiding in her journal that she " felt painfully the thought of losing her " . The new breach in royal tradition caused surprise , especially in Germany , and Queen Victoria wrote to the Queen of Prussia that princes of small impoverished German houses were " very unpopular " in Britain and that Lord Lorne , a " person of distinction at home " with " an independent fortune " was " really no lower in rank than minor German Royalty " . 
