Prince Albert

Standard Name: Albert, Prince
Used Form: Prince Consort

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Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
The queen was grief-stricken at his death. Her devastation resembled that which she had experienced after the death of Prince Albert . In a letter to her secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby , she compared the...
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg , Princess Alexandrina Victoria 's cousin, visited England for the first time.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
xiii
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
52-3
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg made a second visit to England to see his cousin QV .
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
132
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
xiii
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
QV proposed marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg after spending a short time with him.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
133-4
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
xiv
Friends, Associates Frances Isabella Duberly
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.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. “Editor’s Introduction”. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, edited by Christine Kelly, Oxford University Press, p. xi - xlviii.
xxxiii-xxxiv
Friends, Associates Alfred Tennyson
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
Friends, Associates Florence Nightingale
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...
Literary responses George Eliot
Lewes , who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters,
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
3: 10
was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...
Literary Setting Queen Victoria
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Harriet 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...
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
Other Life Event Elizabeth Rigby
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 .
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland.
137
Other Life Event Florence Nightingale
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...
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...
Publishing Caroline Norton
CN published in Macmillan's Magazine an elegy on Prince Albert , entitled Gone!
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby.
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Timeline

26 November 1891: A private command performance of Mascagni's...

Building item

26 November 1891

A private command performance of Mascagni 's Cavalleria Rusticana was presented at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria .

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