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Albert believed in the power of art and design to improve the quality of life for everyone. By 1841, Victoria and Albert had both taken up etching as a hobby and often worked on the same piece together. This sketch depicts Victoria, Princess Royal and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales as young children playing together.
Trinity College, Cambridge. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra ). From the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne, but ...
The Duchy of Swabia ( German: Herzogtum Schwaben; Latin: Ducatus Allemaniæ) was one of the five stem duchies of the medieval German Kingdom. It arose in the 10th century in the southwestern area that had been settled by Alemanni tribes in Late Antiquity . While the historic region of Swabia takes its name from the ancient Suebi, dwelling in ...
May 15, 2018 · First cousins – Albert’s father was the brother of Victoria’s mother – Queen Victoria and Prince Albert actually met a couple of years before their engagement. The pair first met in 1836, when Albert travelled from his native Germany to London for Princess Victoria’s 17th birthday. Though Victoria later wrote to her uncle, King ...
Conrad I ( c. 1020 – 5 December 1055), also known as Cuno or Kuno, was the duke of Bavaria from 1049 to 1053. He was of the Ezzonen family, his parents being Liudolf, Count of Zütphen and eldest son of Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lorraine, and Matilda. For this, he is sometimes called Conrad of Zutphen . After eighteen months of vacancy since ...
In that year or thereabouts, Conrad married Matilda, daughter of Henry's rival, the Conradine duke Herman II of Swabia. Unlike his father, Conrad supported Herman's bid for the German throne. Finally, Henry was elected and crowned King of the Romans (as Henry II) on 7 June. Conrad and Matilda had two sons: Conrad the Younger, Duke of Carinthia ...
Gerard ( c. 1030 – 14 April 1070), also known as Gerard the Wonderful, was a Lotharingian nobleman. He was the count of Metz and Châtenois from 1047 to 1048, when his brother Duke Adalbert resigned them to him upon his becoming the Duke of Upper Lorraine. On Adalbert's death the next year, Gerard became duke, a position that he held until ...
