 Louise returned to Britain , from Quebec , with her husband on 27 October 1883 , and landed at Liverpool . Queen Victoria had prepared apartments at Kensington Palace , and the couple took up official residence there . Louise retained those apartments until her death there 56 years later . Lorne resumed his political career , campaigning unsuccessfully for the Hampstead seat in 1885 . In 1896 , he won the South Manchester seat , entering parliament as a Liberal . Louise , unlike Lorne and his father , was in favour of Irish Home Rule , and disappointed when he defected from Gladstonian Liberalism to the Liberal Unionists . Relations between Louise and Lorne were strained , and , despite the Queen 's attempts to keep them under one roof , they often went their separate ways . Even when he accompanied Louise , he was not always received with favour at court , and the Prince of Wales did not take to him . Out of all the royal family , Lorne was the only one to be identified closely with a political party , having been a Gladstonian liberal in the House of Commons . 
