Prince Albert

QV opened Parliament for the first time since Prince Albert 's death nearly five years before.

QV 's future husband, Prince Albert , was delivered by the same midwife as Victoria, just over three months later.

Princess Victoria had many cousins, the most significant of whom was Albert , her future husband.

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...

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...

He attracted her attention when he contactedAlbert in the world beyond, and transmitted a message which included Albert's secret pet-name.

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

An accident at Hartley Colliery in Northumberland provoked HET to write a poem about it; this year she also wrote of Queen Victoria 's mourning for Prince Albert .

A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald , Coventry Patmore , Edward Lear , William Ewart Gladstone

HS expressed her patriotism in The Prince and the People. A Poem under the name Mrs. Yorick Smythies.

She wrote this poem, she said in her preface, during the violent and unjust, but luckily short-lived, popular outcry against the Prince Consort . An illness prevented her from getting it into print until the...

The first canto of the poem, in a mix of heroic couplets and quatrains in the same iambic pentameter line, expresses loyal indignation at the cowardly tumult raised against a prince who is defenceless as...

ER 's husband, Sir Charles Eastlake , accepted the post of Director of the National Gallery, at the urging of the Prime Minister and Prince Albert .

Some time in 1844 ER had her picture taken by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson . The resulting Talbotype, entitled Elizabeth Rigby, was the first example of photography viewed by Prince Albert .

ER anonymously published The Late Prince Consort in the January 1862 Quarterly Review, only a month after Prince Albert 's death.