Oh! how I adore and love him, I cannot say!!” (15.10.1839) Queen Victoria and Prince Albert married on 10 February 1840. They had nine children in all and spend 21 years of married life together.

prince consort in July 1857 was ridiculed in the press but explained as required by the imminence of having their adult children outrank their father, "a foreign prince." Victoria and Albert.

At just 4ft 11in tall, Victoria was a towering presence as a symbol of her Empire. She and her husband Albert and their nine children came to symbolise a new, confident age. Alexandrina Victoria ...

In the early years of their marriage, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were also keen artists, etching their children, pets and literary scenes, at Windsor Castle and Claremont, where they had a ...

Some of their children married princes and princesses from countries across Europe, like Russia and Germany. This is why Victoria was called the Grandmother of Europe! When Albert died ...