To get to her mother, they were led through a significant amount of security checks, that quite honestly was very frustrating. But through all that, Alex was able to notice that all of the guards were not native to the empire of heaven, but were actually Albians, soldiers from the empire of heaven.
It spoke volumes of just how much trust her mother seemed to have in the court of the empire of heaven after she married in, and that trust seemingly amounted to zero if she had to be this stringent with her security measures and being incapable of trusting no one other than soldiers from her own household. If not for the fact that it might get his head chopped off, Alex would probably wonder how it was possible that the emperor was Victoria's father.
