His talents and amiability soon won him great popularity, especially among the peasants.
Prince Alexander possessed much charm and amiability of manner; he was tall, dignified and strikingly handsome.
Shaftesbury's amiability of character seems to have been one of his principal characteristics.
Bismarck coquetted with him as the representative of a force that might help him to combat the Prussian liberals; in 1878, in a speech before the Reichstag, he spoke of him with deep respect, as a man of the greatest amiability and ability from whom much could be learned.
His personal amiability earned him the affectionate pity of his subjects, and he became the hero of popular stories which did not tend to maintain the dignity of the crown.
