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Prince Albert

1819–1861

Victoria's husband, the Prince Consort

Victoria's husband and cousin

Facts

Born:
26 August 1819
Died:
14 December 1861 (aged 42)
  • At Victoria's accession (1837): aged 17
  • At Victoria and Albert's wedding (1840): aged 20

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Life in the Almanack

  1. 26 August 1819 Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is born at Schloss Rosenau, Coburg
  2. 19 September 1819 The infant Prince Albert is christened in the marble hall of Schloss Rosenau aged 0
  3. 31 March 1826 Prince Albert's parents, Duke Ernest and Duchess Louise, are formally divorced aged 6
  4. 30 August 1831 Duchess Louise, Prince Albert's mother, dies aged thirty aged 12
  5. 16 November 1831 Death of Augusta, grandmother of both Victoria and Albert aged 12
  6. 23 December 1832 Ernest I of Coburg marries his niece, Duchess Marie of Württemberg – Albert's cousin also becomes his stepmother aged 13
  7. 18 May 1836 Prince Albert and his brother Ernest first come to visit at Kensington – Victoria and Albert's first meeting aged 16
  8. 7 June 1836 Seventeen-year-old Victoria writes to her uncle Leopold in raptures about Albert aged 16
  9. 10 October 1839 Prince Albert and his brother Ernest arrive at Windsor – five days later Victoria proposes aged 20
  10. 15 October 1839 Victoria proposes to Prince Albert at Windsor aged 20
  11. 23 November 1839 Victoria announces her intention to marry Albert to the Privy Council aged 20
  12. 16 January 1840 In her speech from the throne Victoria announces her marriage to Parliament aged 20
  13. 8 February 1840 Prince Albert arrives in London to cheering crowds for the wedding aged 20
  14. 10 February 1840 Victoria and Albert marry in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace aged 20
  15. 10 June 1840 Edward Oxford fires at the Queen and Albert on Constitution Hill – the first assassination attempt aged 20
  16. 19 July 1843 Brunel's SS Great Britain is launched in the presence of Prince Albert aged 23
  17. 29 January 1844 Death of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Albert's father aged 24
  18. 31 July 1844 Eos, Prince Albert's favourite greyhound, dies – her bronze statue still stands at Osborne aged 24
  19. 26 August 1845 On her first visit to Germany, Victoria celebrates Albert's birthday at the Rosenau, the house where he was born aged 26
  20. 4 November 1847 Death of Felix Mendelssohn, composer, a favourite of Victoria and Albert aged 28
  21. 8 September 1848 Victoria and Albert arrive at Balmoral for the first time aged 29
  22. 18 August 1855 Victoria and Albert arrive in Paris – the first English sovereign in Paris since the Hundred Years' War aged 35
  23. 25 June 1857 Victoria confers on Albert the title "Prince Consort" aged 37
  24. 25 November 1861 Prince Albert travels to Cambridge to confront the Prince of Wales aged 42
  25. 9 December 1861 Doctors diagnose typhoid in Prince Albert aged 42
  26. 14 December 1861 Prince Albert dies at Windsor – Victoria mourns him for the rest of her life aged 42
  27. 23 December 1861 Prince Albert's funeral in St George's Chapel, Windsor
  28. 9 July 1863 Death of Baron Christian Friedrich von Stockmar, adviser to Leopold, then to Victoria and Albert
  29. 29 March 1871 Victoria opens the Royal Albert Hall
  30. 22 August 1893 Death of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Albert's elder brother
  31. 17 May 1899 Victoria lays the foundation stone of the Victoria and Albert Museum – her last great public ceremony

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