Six whole weeks. I know. But then we will be together forever.

“From the start, Albert and Ernest were schooled together as if twins. Intellectually ahead although fourteen months younger, Albert was physically and emotionally less mature. As Ernest would put it, ‘His physical development did not keep pace with the quick unfolding of his remarkable mental powers; he...had the physical leaning of the weaker toward the stronger.’ [...] At first, Albert fled from strangers, often retreating into the arms of his brother, who shared an affection not reciprocated by a cold, aloof father. “

“[...] Perhaps because he was a crucial year younger as a child when his mother was banished, perhaps because he was always under strain to keep up physically and intellectually with his more mature brother, Albert was a very different young man as he neared seventeen than was Ernest at eighteen. Brought up like twin brothers, they might have developed, but for such formative contrasts, in the same ways. Professions of intimacy with his brother would remain vocal and zealous, and Albert remained excessively loyal all his life.”

                                                                              — Uncrowned King by Stanley Weintraub