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Officially, Prince Albert’s father was Ernest I Duke Of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, however his marriage to Albert’s mother, Princess Louise Of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, was an unhappy...
Prince Albert was the second son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. In 1840 he married Queen Victoria. At this time the United Kingdom was the pre-eminent world power and a country at the cutting edge of technical and social change in the nineteenth century.
In 1825, Albert's great-uncle, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, died, which led to a realignment of the Saxon duchies the following year; and Albert's father became the first reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
- 10 February 1840 – 14 December 1861
- 14 December 1861 (aged 42), Windsor Castle, England
- Cupid's Arrow Strikes
- Unhappy Childhoods
- Role Reversal
- Behind The Public Image
By 1839, Victoria was relishing the relative freedom of being an unmarried young queen and once again declared herself reluctant to marry. But in October 1839, Albert visited England again. This time, Victoria was smitten. “It was with some emotion that I beheld Albert – who is beautiful”, she scribbled in her diary that night. Just five days later...
However, Victoria was not a natural mother. Princess Victoria's childhoodhad been an unhappy one, kept in seclusion at Kensington Palace by her own domineering mother with little in the way of companionship or affection. The death of Victoria’s father when she was just eight months old had a profound impact and the only male influence she had had a...
Albert was not a popular choice of husband for Victoria with the British public. He had come to the marriage an impoverished and relatively low-standing prince, despite his royal connections. And he was German to boot. “He comes to take for ‘better or for worse’ / England’s fat queen and England’s fatter purse” were two lines from a popular, if ins...
The issue of sharing power was a constant thorn in the marriage. Albert was an accomplished polymath with deep interests in the arts, science and new technologies of the day. He used his influence as Victoria’s husband to further some of his passions, adding President of the Society for the Extinction of Slavery and Chancellor of Cambridge Universi...
- Rachel Dinning
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Brief Life History of Albert When Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born on 26 August 1819, in Rosenau, Hof, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Ernest I von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, was 35 and his mother, Louise Dorothea Pauline Charlotte Friederike Augusta Von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg -Dutchess of Saxe ...
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- Queen Victoria of The United Kingdom
Feature. Mourning the Death of Prince Albert. Elisabeth Darby and Nicola Smith look at the impact of the death and funeral of Prince Albert, on both Queen Victoria and the nation. Nicola Smith | Published in History Today Volume 33 Issue 10 October 1983. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, photographed later in life by Vernon Heath. J.
Feb 25, 2023 · Prince Albert (1819–1861), second son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, forged with his wife and queen, Victoria, a nineteenth-century global-imperial monarchy that reshaped Britain’s relationships with its empire and the wider world. As the queen’s...
