"You know that art always makes one's features more favourable!" Christobal replied. He personally believed that Queen Victoria had looked nice enough when she was young if her portraits were to be trusted. If only she was blonde, she would be quite pretty, by Christobal's standards. He liked women who looked homely and innocent.

"My take on the Queen won't be an accurate one, though," he continued. He leaned closed to her and explained: "It will be a charmed painting. She will be dressed all properly but when you give her a password, she will strip down for you."