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When Prince Albert gave Queen Victoria an engagement ring – an item little known in Britain in the first half of the 19th Century – he began a new fashion that has endured ever since.
Jan 15, 2021 · Queen Victoria married her husband of 21 years, Prince Albert, on 10 February 1840 in St James’s Palace chapel, in what was the first marriage of a reigning queen of England since Mary I in 1554. To the outside world, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were the golden couple, exemplars of traditional family values. Yet, as Jane Ridley reveals, behind the romanticised veneer, Albert's thirst ...
Victoria's father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III and Queen Charlotte.Until 1817, King George's only legitimate grandchild was Edward's niece Princess Charlotte of Wales, the daughter of George, Prince Regent (who would become George IV).
Apr 2, 2014 · Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In 1840, Victoria married her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the son of her mother’s brother. The couple met when Victoria was just 16; their ...
Mar 31, 2021 · Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert were patrons of the arts—including the burgeoning field of photography. They commissioned images to document life at the palace and even reenacted ...
May 30, 2017 · Four months after their royal wedding, newlyweds Queen Victoria and Prince Albert departed Buckingham Palace in an open carriage for their regular ride through Hyde Park. Just 100 yards outside ...
Mar 26, 2023 · Named for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's mutual uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium, Leopold was the eighth of the couple's nine children and their youngest son. Leopold suffered from hemophilia ...
