"A sense of Victorian probity and piety was a signal feature of the case of Prince Albert v Strange, coming twelve years after Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne in 1837, and a year after a series of troubling revolutions in Europe (see Evans, 2016, Chapter 3), forming the subject of many anxious comments in Queen Victoria's Journals. The case showed a hitherto little-known domestic side to the royal couple's life, namely their engagement in the rational amusement of etching-making centred around their family, and featuring most notably their children and favourite dogs"--