Prince Albert

Anne's brother-in-law from 1822 was the distinguished Sir Henry Holland (physician to Princess Caroline, and later Prince Albert and Queen Victoria ), a descendent of the Wedgwood family and cousin of Elizabeth Gaskell ...

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg made a second visit to England to see his cousin QV .

QV proposed marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg after spending a short time with him.

QV and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg were married in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace.

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

Queen Victoria , with Prince Albert and their eldest daughter , reviewed the Eighth Hussars at Portsmouth on their return from the Crimean War. She bowed deeply to FID , though she did not speak to her.

FN visited the Queen and the Prince on 21 September 1856 at Balmoral, where she pleaded the case for military hospital reform. A few years later, the Queen offered her an apartment in Kensington...

Lewes , who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...

Unlike the flowery language of her editor, QV 's diction is simple and the prose style concise. Although the journal entries make implicit references to class, the omission of overt discussions of governmental affairs and...

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...

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

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 .

Queen Victoria wrote to her during the war, and after the peace spoke highly of her achievements abroad. The monarch sent her a personal letter and an engraved, enameled, and jeweled brooch designed by the...

FB's biographer Brita K. Stendahl sees her as a woman of the early liberal era, given to good causes: women's rights, pensions for women teachers, orphanages for cholera victims' children, freedom of movement for Jews...

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...