What is the fine-grained topic of the following text: The young queen’s first few years are beset with court scandal and malicious gossip: there is the unsavoury Flora Hastings affair, a source of extreme embarrassment to the queen; the eternal conflict between Victoria and her mother, and the young queen’s hatred of Sir John Conroy, her mother’s close friend. Only return the topic.
Challenges and scandals during the early years of Queen Victoria's reign