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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband of Queen Victoria and 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.
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Born 26 August 1819 · Died 14 December 1861 · Q152245
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I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
“for the prospect of great happiness you have contributed to give me, in the person of dear Albert ... He possesses every quality that could be desired to render me perfectly happy.”
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Their eldest son succeeded as Edward VII, the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, named after the ducal house to which Albert belonged
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Died 1861-12-14.
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
At the age of 42, devastating Victoria so much that she entered into a deep state of mourning and wore black for the rest of her life
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
“I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.”
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
“Opis: o otwarciu wystawy na terenie Hyde Parku, który był realizacją projektu Alberta odnośnie londyńskiej wystawy światowej.”
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Albert used the opportunity of congratulating the Prince Regent of Prussia on the birth of their granddaughter Princess Charlotte of Prussia to raise concerns about various European matters, such as reform in the Austria
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Albert claimed that he had no need of a British peerage, writing: "It would almost be a step downwards, for as a Duke of Saxony, I feel myself much higher than a Duke of York or Kent." For the next seventeen years, Albert was formally titled "HRH Prince Albert" until, on 25 June 1857, Victoria formally granted him the title Prince Consort.
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
John Camden Neild, an eccentric miser, left Victoria an unexpected legacy, which Albert used to obtain the freehold of Balmoral
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
As a result of a widespread economic crisis
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Albert was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge after a close contest with the Earl of Powis
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Victoria and Albert spent a rainy holiday in the west of Scotland at Loch Laggan, but heard from their doctor, Sir James Clark, that Clark's son had enjoyed dry, sunny days farther east at Balmoral Castle
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Albert was rebuked by Lord George Bentinck when he attended the debate on the Corn Laws in the House of Commons to give tacit support to Peel
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Elephant (1843).
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Awarded Royal Fellow of the Royal Society (1840).
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Albert received a personal grant of arms, being the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom differenced by a white three-point label with a red cross in the centre, quartered with his ancestral arms of Saxony
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Albert returned to the United Kingdom with Ernest in October 1839 to visit Victoria, with the objective of settling the marriage.
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Albert and Victoria felt mutual affection and the Queen proposed to him on 15 October 1839.
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Leopold arranged for his sister, Victoria's mother, to invite the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his two sons to visit her in May 1836, with the purpose of meeting Victoria.
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Albert's great-uncle, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, died, which led to a realignment of the Saxon duchies the following year; and Albert's father became the first reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Married her lover, Alexander von Hanstein, Count of Pölzig and Beiersdorf
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Born 1819-08-26.
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