Well, I think he was great, in that he pushed some much needed reforms ahead, and actually went through with them rather than hedging. He died, however, on the eve of greater refoms, so he perhaps is not remembered as much as he would be otherwise. His personal life was perhaps a discredit to the dynasty, and it certainly his second marriage didn't make for a good image. He was human, going on what he felt, and not really thinking of position, as he ought to have been. He was simply an older married man, with a wife unable to please him anymore, who took up with a young girl, who he deeply loved, an all too human story. But it was not as moral as he was supposed to be, that's true. He defintely was forward thinking, and very intelligent, perhaps more of a true European monarch than either of his succesors.