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This dynamic would continue through the years--each spouse, headstrong and impassioned, eager to lead the marriage on his or her own terms. For two decades, Victoria and Albert engaged in a very public contest for dominance. Against all odds, the marriage succeeded, but it was always a work in progress. And in the end, it was Albert's early death that set the Queen free to create the myth of her marriage as a peaceful idyll and her husband as Galahad, pure and perfect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Gill shows, the marriage of Victoria and Albert was great not because it was perfect but because it was passionate and complicated. 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