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2. Queen Victoria. 3. Victoria, the Empress Frederick, was the eldest child of Queen Victoria. She married Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia who was briefly Kaiser Frederick III. 4. Princess Beatrice of Edinburg and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 10-year-old in this picture, was the younger sister of the bride. She later married Alfonso, the ...
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; [1] 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.
Victoria continued to praise Albert following his second visit in October 1839. Albert and Victoria felt mutual affection and the Queen proposed to him on 15 October 1839, just five days after he had arrived at Windsor. [5] They were married on 10 February 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, London. Victoria was besotted.
The Marriage of Queen Victoria is an 1842 painting by the British artist George Hayter. It depicts the wedding between Queen Victoria , reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, and her prince consort Albert on 10 February 1840 at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace in London .
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days—which was longer than those of any of her predecessors—constituted the Victorian era.
Victoria wrote in her journal on 26 August 1843: "I felt so happy and proud to have found something that gave him so much pleasure". The painting was hung in Prince Albert's despatch room at Windsor Castle. [1] The painting is of small dimensions and depicts the queen in an intimate moment, in a minimally painted white ruffled dress.
Brown was born on 8 December 1826 at Crathienaird, Crathie and Braemar Aberdeenshire, to Margaret Leys and John Brown, [2] [3] and went to work as an outdoor servant (in Scots ghillie or gillie) at Balmoral Castle, which Queen Victoria and Prince Albert leased in February 1848, and purchased outright in November 1851.
The Royal Mausoleum is a mausoleum for Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert.It is located on the Frogmore estate within the Home Park at Windsor in Berkshire, England.. It was listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England in October 1975.