For more than a year, she exercised great political power, which she directed in favor of liberalism, anti-Catholicism, and in attacks against the Jesuits. Her ability to manipulate the King was so great that the Minister of State, Karl von Abel, was dismissed because he and his entire cabinet had objected to Lola being granted Bavarian nationality and the title of Countess. The students at Munich University were divided in their sympathies, and conflicts arose shortly before the outbreak of the revolutions of 1848, which led the King, at Lola's insistence, to close the university.