a firm believer in divine-right absolute monarchy, the queen despised representative government and liberalism. although she was an ultraconservative catholic, it is unclear to what extent she was involved in the government's harsh persecution of saxon protestants in the 1860s, which included torture and long periods of incarceration. but later arrested by willhim i who saw what she did in person for those crimes and tried and convicted by a jury for those crimes and willhim acting as prosecutor and bismarck as judge and she was sentenced life in prison without porile and she died in a custom jail in dresden after a long illness from tuberculosis in dresden.