Prince Albert

Standard Name: Albert, Prince
Used Form: Prince Consort

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
She had already written about More, twenty-six years earlier, in Biographies of Good Women, and she was to write on her again, for young people, in The Cunning Woman's Grandson, A Tale of Cheddar...
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
QV and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg were married in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Features Queen Victoria
Editor Roger Fulford reproduces selections from the previously unpublished letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter. The first of six volumes of their letters, this spans from the time of the princess's marriage, when the...
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
Prince Albert was officially granted the title of Prince Consort.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
xvi
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Queen Victoria
This is the second volume of letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter that Fulford edited. Written around and following Prince Albert 's death, they trace the tremendous grief and public withdrawal of Victoria's early...
Violence Queen Victoria
An assassination attempt was made on QV , pregnant with her first child, as she and Albert drove in an open carriage.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
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Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
xiv
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
Prince Albert , consort of QV , died of typhoid in the Blue Room at Windsor Castle.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
xvi
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
QV made her first public appearance after Prince Albert 's death.
Thompson, Dorothy. Queen Victoria: Gender and Power. Virago Press.
58-9
Occupation Queen Victoria
QV opened Parliament for the first time since Prince Albert 's death nearly five years before.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
xvii
Birth Queen Victoria
QV 's future husband, Prince Albert , was delivered by the same midwife as Victoria, just over three months later.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
22
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
Princess Victoria had many cousins, the most significant of whom was Albert , her future husband.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
52
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
There was much political turmoil amongst Members of Parliament on public notification of the marriage, owing to the prince's German heritage and Victoria's position of power combined with her gender and her youth. Albert was...
politics Queen Victoria
Tennyson had a closer personal relationship than any other writer with the Queen. QV and her court appointed him Poet Laureate on 19 November 1850. Following Prince Albert 's death and the Queen's deepened appreciation...
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
He attracted her attention when he contactedAlbert in the world beyond, and transmitted a message which included Albert's secret pet-name.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
334
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
John Brown , a Highlander, had first entered the service of the royal family in 1851; Victoria's biographer Elizabeth Longford says she first mentioned him in her journal on 11 September 1849. After Prince Albert

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14 November 1839: Prince Albert (future husband of Queen Victoria)...

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14 November 1839

Prince Albert (future husband of Queen Victoria) and his brother Ernest made the first railway trip in England by royalty, from London to Slough.

Early 1840: At the time of Queen Victoria's marriage...

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Early 1840

At the time of Queen Victoria 's marriage to Prince Albert , the Devon industry of hand-crafted lace-making had so far declined that it was difficult to obtain enough for her wedding dress.

21 November 1840: Prince Albert's attendance at Queen Victoria's...

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21 November 1840

Prince Albert 's attendance at Queen Victoria 's labour, in London, increased the popularity of fathers attending births.

1843: Prince Albert assumed the presidency of the...

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1843

Prince Albert assumed the presidency of the Society of Arts.

12 June 1843: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part...

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12 June 1843

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part of the theatre-going public when they visited the Drury Lane Theatre in state.

1844: The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers's...

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1844

The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers 's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation influenced the evolutionary thinking of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace .

May 1844: The Society for Improving the Condition of...

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May 1844

The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes began to work towards housing reform; the society was a revitalized and revamped version of the Labourer's Friend Society of the previous decade.

October 1846: Queen Isabella of Spain married her cousin,...

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October 1846

Queen Isabella of Spain married her cousin, despite machinations by British and French diplomats to arrange a marriage that would be politically opportune for them.

: Following a tour of inspection of working...

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Spring1848

Following a tour of inspection of working class housing, Prince Albert assumed a more active role in his presidency of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes .

1849: Prince Albert joined the Geological Society...

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1849

Prince Albert joined the Geological Society of London .

1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...

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1 May 1851

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by Queen Victoria in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.

1854: Queen Victoria sat for the first photographic...

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1854

Queen Victoria sat for the first photographic portraits of the royal family, taken by Roger Fenton .

May 1856: Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at...

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May 1856

Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at the Princess's Theatre , watched by an audience which included Queen Victoria and Prince Albert .

1859: Charles Lyell's address as president of the...

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1859

Charles Lyell 's address as president of the geological section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) supported the new consensus that humans had lived among now-extinct mammals in a Europe that...

23 April 1863: Queen Victoria selected architect George...

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23 April 1863

Queen Victoria selected architect George Gilbert Scott 's ornate design for the Albert Memorial.

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