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15 de may. de 2018 · Sally Coffey. - May 15, 2018. Painting of Prince Albert and Victoria 1840-43 (oil on canvas) by Edwin Landseer. Credit: Royal Collection Trust ¬© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2016/Bridgeman. From their early courtship to Albert’s untimely death, the love affair between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert showed a warmer side to the Queen.
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1 de ene. de 2013 · To the outside world Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their family seemed the embodiment of domestic bliss, but the reality was very different, writes historian Jane Ridley. The marriage...
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By 1839, Victoria was relishing the relative freedom of being an unmarried young queen and once again declared herself reluctant to marry. But in October 1839, Albert visited England again. This time, Victoria was smitten. “It was with some emotion that I beheld Albert – who is beautiful”, she scribbled in her diary that night. Just five days later...
However, Victoria was not a natural mother. Princess Victoria's childhoodhad been an unhappy one, kept in seclusion at Kensington Palace by her own domineering mother with little in the way of companionship or affection. The death of Victoria’s father when she was just eight months old had a profound impact and the only male influence she had had a...
Albert was not a popular choice of husband for Victoria with the British public. He had come to the marriage an impoverished and relatively low-standing prince, despite his royal connections. And he was German to boot. “He comes to take for ‘better or for worse’ / England’s fat queen and England’s fatter purse” were two lines from a popular, if ins...
The issue of sharing power was a constant thorn in the marriage. Albert was an accomplished polymath with deep interests in the arts, science and new technologies of the day. He used his influence as Victoria’s husband to further some of his passions, adding President of the Society for the Extinction of Slavery and Chancellor of Cambridge Universi...
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16 de jun. de 2015 · This overwhelming love shared by a queen and her prince would change British culture forever. Many of the traditions we take for granted today, and the artistic legacies we celebrate, emerged...
18 de ene. de 2021 · On 10 February 1840 Queen Victoria married Prince Albert, the German Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in one of the greatest love matches in British history. Smitten with him from the day they met, the pair would rule over a golden age of British industrial growth and birth a family tree large enough to place its members in many of ...
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25 de feb. de 2021 · Victoria's love for Albert. Queen Victoria wrote in her diary that she was attracted to Albert from the moment she met him in 1836: "He is extremely handsome; his hair is about the same colour as mine; his eyes are large & blue & he has a beautiful nose & a very sweet mouth with fine teeth."
19 de feb. de 2024 · By Sydney Zatz. 19th February 2024. Their love is perhaps one of the strongest in royal history, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. His early death impacted the rest of her reign as a...
