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- Johnny Foreigner V Little Englanders
- Battle Lines: Prince Albert and Lord Melbourne
- Anti-Slavery Campaign
- Social Conscience: Albert’s Determination to Improve Working-Class Lives
- Albert The Hero and Protector of Victoria
- Champion of Innovation: The Great Exhibition
- New Responsibilities in War
- Albert’s Christmas Tradition
- Tragic Price For A Busy Schedule
- Forgotten Legacy of Britain
When Prince Albert died at the age of 42 Britain was the most powerful nation in the world, largely due to his influence. One of many suitors proposed for the then 20-year-old Queen Victoria, their early marriage saw him in a subservient role, barely allowed to put stamps on the Queen’s letters. Albert craved a meaningful role and was keen not just...
Albert was determined to grasp an opportunity to assert himself politically, despite Victoria's unwillingness to share power, keen to show that she was the monarch. Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, who enjoyed a close relationship with the Queen, was loath to allow Prince Albert the means to interfere with political decisions. The first issue that ar...
Prince Albert’s first official public duty was on 12 June 1840 when he attended the world’s first Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The organisers were keen to have a royal patron and the campaign was determined to bring an end to forced labour. Britain’s association with such a barbaric industry had been in existence for 200 years. In 1807 slaver...
Increasingly involved with projects, including overseeing the redecoration of the Houses of Parliament, Albert’s passion to improve life for Britain’s citizens saw him tour Birmingham, the ‘city of a thousand trades’ in November 1843, accompanied by Prime Minister Robert Peel. The sprawling city was at the heart of the industrial revolution and the...
An assassination attempt on Queen Victoria’s life while out driving in a carriage towards Hyde Park acted as a turning point in how the British public and press perceived the German prince. The would-be assassin, a young man from Oxford, who fired shots at the royal carriage, claimed to be from an organisation called Young England. Such a claim was...
During Prince Albert’s travels around the country by train, he witnessed the invention of the first electric telegraph, the Penny Farthing bicycle, the growth of Britain’s train network and the launch of the world’s most advanced ship, SS Britain. It is at this moment excited by technological advances that he had ideas to bring British industry to ...
Albert’s change of status in Britain saw him take on increasing responsibilities, particularly when in 1854 the country went to war with Russia in Crimea. Determined to be involved he conferred with generals about funding new regiments and as a consequence raised money for the army’s first permanent training camp in Aldershot. Part of his proposals...
After the birth of Queen Victoria and Albert’s first child, Princess Vicky on 21 December 1840 the family spent their first Christmas together at Windsor Castle. Contrary to the popular belief that Albert introduced the first Christmas tree to Britain it was Queen Charlotte, wife of George III who started the tradition. But Albert changed the way t...
It is believed that the increasing pressure and stress suffered by Prince Albert due to his busy schedule undermined his health, causing him to suffer regular colds, chills, and crippling stomach pains. He would rise at five in the morning to deal with his workload until late at night. He described in a letter to his daughter Vicky that he was like...
Many of Albert’s achievements were quietly forgotten over the years while Queen Victoria took up the mantle of a Queen in mourning. Some of those achievements included modernising the British monarchy and British society itself. As a man who wanted to make things better his philanthropy and intellectual ambition resulted in seeing British science a...
The real story of Prince Albert's ice-skating accident and Queen Victoria's heroic rescue is just as dramatic as what we see in the ITV drama, even if a few of the details are slightly...
Wilson, A. N., 1950- author In This Companion Biography To The Acclaimed Victoria, A.n. Wilson Offers A Deeply Textured And Ambi New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Explore specific themes, biographies, and media that further contextualises Albert’s life and times Films These short films from the Channel 4 documentary 'Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed' focus on key areas of Albert's activity.
Trinity College, Cambridge. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra ). From the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne, but ...
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