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Mayall, 1860 Consort of the British monarch Tenure 10 February 1840 – 14 December 1861 Born (1819-08-26)26 August 1819 Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, German Confederation Died 14 December 1861(1861-12-14) (aged 42) Windsor Castle, England, United Kingdom Burial 23 December 1861 St George's Chapel; 18 December 1862 Frogmore Mausoleum Spouse Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom ​ ​ (m. 1840)​ Issue Victoria, German Empress Edward VII Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg Full name English: Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel German: Franz Albert August Karl Emanuel House Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (until 1826) Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (from 1826) Father Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Mother Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel;[1] 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Albert was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. At the age of twenty, he married his cousin, Victoria; they had nine children. Initially he felt constrained by his role of prince consort, which did not afford him power or responsibilities. He gradually developed a reputation for supporting public causes, such as educational reform and the abolition of slavery worldwide, and was entrusted with running the Queen's household, office and estates. He was heavily involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851, which was a resounding success. Victoria came to depend more and more on Albert's support and guidance. He aided the development of Britain's constitutional monarchy by persuading his wife to be less partisan in her dealings with Parliament—although he actively disagreed with the interventionist foreign policy pursued during Lord Palmerston's tenure as Foreign Secretary. Albert died at the relatively young age of 42. Victoria was so devastated at the loss of her husband that she entered into a deep state of mourning and wore black for the rest of her life. On her death in 1901, 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. Contents 1 Early life 2 Marriage 3 Consort of the Queen 4 Reformer and innovator 5 Family and public life (1852–1859) 6 Illness and death 7 Legacy 8 Titles, styles, honours and arms 8.1 Titles and styles 8.2 British honours 8.2.1 Military appointments 8.3 Foreign honours 8.4 Arms 9 Issue 10 Ancestry 11 See also 12 References 13 Sources 14 Further reading 15 External links Early life[edit] Albert (left) with his elder brother Ernest and mother Louise, shortly before her exile from court Albert was born at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Germany, the second son of Ernest III, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and his first wife, Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.[2] Albert's future wife, Victoria, was born earlier in the same year with the assistance of the same midwife, Charlotte von Siebold.[3] Albert was baptised into the Lutheran Evangelical Church on 19 September 1819 in the Marble Hall at Schloss Rosenau with water taken from the local river, the Itz.[4] His godparents were his paternal grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; his maternal grandfather, the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg; the Emperor of Austria; the Duke of Teschen; and Emanuel, Count of Mensdorff-Pouilly.[5] In 1825, Albert's great-uncle, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, died. His death 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.[6] Albert and his elder brother, Ernest, spent their youth in a close companionship marred by their parents' turbulent marriage and eventual separation and divorce.[7] After their mother was exiled from court in 1824, she married her lover, Alexander von Hanstein, Count of Pölzig and Beiersdorf. She presumably never saw her children again, and died of cancer at the age of 30 in 1831.[8] The following year, their father married his niece, his sons' cousin Princess Marie of Württemberg; their marriage was not close, however, and Marie had little—if any—impact on her stepchildren's lives.[9] The brothers were educated privately at home by Christoph Florschütz and later studied in Brussels, where Adolphe Quetelet was one of their tutors.[10] Like many other German princes, Albert attended the University of Bonn, where he studied law, political economy, philosophy and the history of art. He played music and excelled at sport, especially fencing and riding.[11] His tutors at Bonn included the philosopher Fichte and the poet Schlegel.[12] Marriage[edit] Main article: Wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Portrait by John Partridge, 1840 The idea of marriage between Albert and his cousin, Victoria, was first documented in an 1821 letter from his paternal grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, who said that he was "the pendant to the pretty cousin".[13] By 1836, this idea had also arisen in the mind of their ambitious uncle Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831.[14] At this time, Victoria was the heir presumptive to the British throne. Her father, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III, had died when she was a baby, and her elderly uncle, King William IV, had no legitimate children. Her mother, the Duchess of Kent, was the sister of both Albert's father—the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha—and King Leopold. 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. William IV, however, disapproved of any match with the Coburgs, and instead favoured the suit of Prince Alexander, second son of the Prince of Orange. Victoria was well aware of the various matrimonial plans and critically appraised a parade of eligible princes.[15] She wrote, "[Albert] is extremely handsome; his hair is about the same colour as mine; his eyes are large and blue, and he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth with fine teeth; but the charm of his countenance is his expression, which is most delightful."[16] Alexander, on the other hand, she described as "very plain".[16] Victoria wrote to her uncle Leopold to thank him "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."[17] Although the parties did not undertake a formal engagement, both the family and their retainers widely assumed that the match would take place.[18] Victoria came to the throne aged eighteen on 20 June 1837. Her letters of the time show interest in Albert's education for the role he would have to play, although she resisted attempts to rush her into marriage.[19] In the winter of 1838–39, the prince visited Italy, accompanied by the Coburg family's confidential adviser, Baron Stockmar.[20] Armorial bookplate of Prince Albert Albert returned to the United Kingdom with Ernest in October 1839 to visit the Queen, with the objective of settling the marriage.[21] Albert and Victoria felt mutual affection and the Queen proposed to him on 15 October 1839.[22] Victoria's intention to marry was declared formally to the Privy Council on 23 November,[23] and the couple married on 10 February 1840 at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace.[24] Just before the marriage, Albert was naturalised by Act of Parliament,[25] and granted the style of Royal Highness by an Order in Council.[1] Initially Albert was not popular with the British public; he was perceived to be from an impoverished and undistinguished minor state, barely larger than a small English county.[26] The British Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, advised the Queen against granting her husband the title of "King Consort"; Parliament also objected to Albert being created a peer—partly because of anti-German sentiment and a desire to exclude Albert from any political role.[27] Albert's religious views provided a small amount of controversy when the marriage was debated in Parliament: although as a member of the Lutheran Evangelical Church Albert was a Protestant, the non-Episcopal nature of his church was considered worrisome.[28] Of greater concern, however, was that some of Albert's family were Roman Catholic.[29] Melbourne led a minority government and the opposition took advantage of the marriage to weaken his position further. They opposed the ennoblement of Albert and granted him a smaller annuity than previous consorts,[30] £30,000 instead of the usual £50,000.[31] 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."[32] 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.[33] Consort of the Queen[edit] Portrait by Winterhalter, 1842 The position in which the prince was placed by his marriage, while one of distinction, also offered considerable difficulties; in Albert's own words, "I am very happy and contented; but the difficulty in filling my place with the proper dignity is that I am only the husband, not the master in the house."[34] The Queen's household was run by her former governess,[35] Baroness Lehzen. Albert referred to her as the "House Dragon", and manoeuvred to dislodge the Baroness from her position.[36] Within two months of the marriage, Victoria was pregnant. Albert started to take on public roles; he became President of the Society for the Extinction of Slavery (which was still legal in many parts of the world beyond the British Empire); and helped Victoria privately with her government paperwork.[37] In June 1840, while on a public carriage ride, Albert and the pregnant Victoria were shot at by Edward Oxford, who was later judged insane. Neither Albert nor Victoria was hurt and Albert was praised in the newspapers for his courage and coolness during the attack.[38] Albert was gaining public support as well as political influence, which showed itself practically when, in August, Parliament passed the Regency Act 1840 to designate him regent in the event of Victoria's death before their child reached the age of majority.[39] Their first child, Victoria, named after her mother, was born in November. Eight other children would follow over the next seventeen years. All nine children survived to adulthood, which was remarkable for the era and which biographer Hermione Hobhouse credited to Albert's "enlightened influence" on the healthy running of the nursery.[40] In early 1841, he successfully removed the nursery from Lehzen's pervasive control, and in September 1842, Lehzen left Britain permanently—much to Albert's relief.[41] After the 1841 general election, Melbourne was replaced as Prime Minister by Sir Robert Peel, who appointed Albert as chairman of the Royal Commission in charge of redecorating the new Palace of Westminster. The Palace had burned down seven years before, and was being rebuilt. As a patron and purchaser of pictures and sculpture, the commission was set up to promote the fine arts in Britain. The commission's work was slow, and the architect, Charles Barry, took many decisions out of the commissioners' hands by decorating rooms with ornate furnishings that were treated as part of the architecture.[42] Albert was more successful as a private patron and collector. Among his notable purchases were early German and Italian paintings—such as Lucas Cranach the Elder's Apollo and Diana and Fra Angelico's St Peter Martyr—and contemporary pieces from Franz Xaver Winterhalter and Edwin Landseer.[43] Ludwig Gruner, of Dresden, assisted Albert in buying pictures of the highest quality.[44] Albert and Victoria were shot at again on both 29 and 30 May 1842, but were unhurt. The culprit, John Francis, was detained and condemned to death,[45] although he was later reprieved.[46] Some of their early unpopularity came about because of their stiffness and adherence to protocol in public, though in private the couple were more easy-going.[47] In early 1844, Victoria and Albert were apart for the first time since their marriage when he returned to Coburg on the death of his father.[48] Osborne House, Isle of Wight, UK By 1844, Albert had managed to modernise the royal finances and, through various economies, had sufficient capital to purchase Osborne House on the Isle of Wight as a private residence for their growing family.[49] Over the next few years a house modelled in the style of an Italianate villa was built to the designs of Albert and Thomas Cubitt.[50] Albert laid out the grounds, and improved the estate and farm.[51] Albert managed and improved the other royal estates; his model farm at Windsor was admired by his biographers,[52] and under his stewardship the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall—the hereditary property of the Prince of Wales—steadily increased.[53] Unlike many landowners who approved of child labour and opposed Peel's repeal of the Corn Laws, Albert supported moves to raise working ages and free up trade.[54] In 1846, 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.[55] During Peel's premiership, Albert's authority behind, or beside, the throne became more apparent. He had access to all the Queen's papers, was drafting her correspondence[56] and was present when she met her ministers, or even saw them alone in her absence.[57] The clerk of the Privy Council, Charles Greville, wrote of him: "He is King to all intents and purposes."[58] Reformer and innovator[edit] Early daguerreotype with hand-colouring, 1848 In 1847, Albert was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge after a close contest with the Earl of Powis.[59] Albert used his position as Chancellor to campaign successfully for reformed and more modern university curricula, expanding the subjects taught beyond the traditional mathematics and classics to include modern history and the natural sciences.[60] That summer, 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. The tenant of Balmoral, Sir Robert Gordon, died suddenly in early October, and Albert began negotiations to take over the lease from the owner, the Earl Fife.[61] In May the following year, Albert leased Balmoral, which he had never visited, and in September 1848 he, his wife and the older children went there for the first time.[62] They came to relish the privacy it afforded.[63] Revolutions spread throughout Europe in 1848 as the result of a widespread economic crisis. Throughout the year, Victoria and Albert complained about Foreign Secretary Palmerston's independent foreign policy, which they believed destabilised foreign European powers further.[64] Albert was concerned for many of his royal relatives, a number of whom were deposed. He and Victoria, who gave birth to their daughter Louise during that year, spent some time away from London in the relative safety of Osborne. Although there were sporadic demonstrations in England, no effective revolutionary action took place, and Albert even gained public acclaim when he expressed paternalistic, yet well-meaning and philanthropic, views.[65] In a speech to the Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Labouring Classes, of which he was President, he expressed his "sympathy and interest for that class of our community who have most of the toil and fewest of the enjoyments of this world".[66] It was the "duty of those who, under the blessings of Divine Providence, enjoy station, wealth, and education" to assist those less fortunate than themselves.[66] The Great Exhibition of 1851 was housed in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London. A man of progressive and relatively liberal ideas, Albert not only led reforms in university education, welfare, the royal finances and slavery, he had a special interest in applying science and art to the manufacturing industry.[67] The Great Exhibition of 1851 arose from the annual exhibitions of the Society of Arts, of which Albert was President from 1843, and owed most of its success to his efforts to promote it.[53][68] Albert served as president of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and had to fight for every stage of the project.[69] In the House of Lords, Lord Brougham fulminated against the proposal to hold the exhibition in Hyde Park.[70] Opponents of the exhibition prophesied that foreign rogues and revolutionists would overrun England, subvert the morals of the people, and destroy their faith.[71] Albert thought such talk absurd and quietly persevered, trusting always that British manufacturing would benefit from exposure to the best products of foreign countries.[53] The Queen opened the exhibition in a specially designed and built glass building known as the Crystal Palace on 1 May 1851. It proved a colossal success.[72] A surplus of £180,000 was used to purchase land in South Kensington on which to establish educational and cultural institutions—including the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Imperial College London and what would later be named the Royal Albert Hall and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[73] The area was referred to as "Albertopolis" by sceptics.[74] Family and public life (1852–1859)[edit] Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1854 In 1852, John Camden Neild, an eccentric miser, left Victoria an unexpected legacy, which Albert used to obtain the freehold of Balmoral. As usual, he embarked on an extensive programme of improvements.[75] The same year, he was appointed to several of the offices left vacant by the death of the Duke of Wellington, including the mastership of Trinity House and the colonelcy of the Grenadier Guards.[76] With Wellington's passing, Albert was able to propose and campaign for modernisation of the army, which was long overdue.[77] Thinking that the military was unready for war, and that Christian rule was preferable to Islamic rule, Albert counselled a diplomatic solution to conflict between the Russian and Ottoman empires. Palmerston was more bellicose, and favoured a policy that would prevent further Russian expansion.[78] Palmerston was manoeuvred out of the cabinet in December 1853, but at about the same time a Russian fleet attacked the Ottoman fleet at anchor at Sinop. The London press depicted the attack as a criminal massacre, and Palmerston's popularity surged as Albert's fell.[79] Within two weeks, Palmerston was re-appointed as a minister. As public outrage at the Russian action continued, false rumours circulated that Albert had been arrested for treason and was being held prisoner in the Tower of London.[80] By March 1854, Britain and Russia were embroiled in the Crimean War. Albert devised a master-plan for winning the war by laying siege to Sevastopol while starving Russia economically, which became the Allied strategy after the Tsar decided to fight a purely defensive war.[81] Early British optimism soon faded as the press reported that British troops were ill-equipped and mismanaged by aged generals using out-of-date tactics and strategy. The conflict dragged on as the Russians were as poorly prepared as their opponents. The Prime Minister, Lord Aberdeen, resigned and Palmerston succeeded him.[82] A negotiated settlement eventually put an end to the war with the Treaty of Paris. During the war, Albert arranged the marriage of his fourteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, though Albert delayed the marriage until Victoria was seventeen. Albert hoped that his daughter and son-in-law would be a liberalising influence in the enlarging but very conservative Prussian state.[83] Prince Albert, Queen Victoria and their nine children, 1857. Left to right: Alice, Arthur, Albert (Prince Consort), Albert Edward (Prince of Wales), Leopold, Louise, Queen Victoria with Beatrice, Alfred, Victoria and Helena[84] Albert promoted many public educational institutions. Chiefly at meetings in connection with these he spoke of the need for better schooling.[85] A collection of his speeches was published in 1857. Recognised as a supporter of education and technological progress, he was invited to speak at scientific meetings, such as the memorable address he delivered as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science when it met at Aberdeen in 1859.[86] His espousal of science met with clerical opposition; he and Palmerston unsuccessfully recommended a knighthood for Charles Darwin, after the publication of On the Origin of Species, which was opposed by the Bishop of Oxford.[87] Albert continued to devote himself to the education of his family and the management of the royal household.[88] His children's governess, Lady Lyttelton, thought him unusually kind and patient, and described him joining in family games with enthusiasm.[89] He felt keenly the departure of his eldest daughter for Prussia when she married her fiancé at the beginning of 1858,[90] and was disappointed that his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, did not respond well to the intense educational programme that Albert had designed for him.[91] At the age of seven, the Prince of Wales was expected to take six hours of instruction, including an hour of German and an hour of French every day.[92] When the Prince of Wales failed at his lessons, Albert caned him.[93] Corporal punishment was common at the time, and was not thought unduly harsh.[94] Albert's biographer Roger Fulford wrote that the relationships between the family members were "friendly, affectionate and normal ... there is no evidence either in the Royal Archives or in the printed authorities to justify the belief that the relations between the Prince and his eldest son were other than deeply affectionate."[95] Philip Magnus wrote in his biography of Albert's eldest son that Albert "tried to treat his children as equals; and they were able to penetrate his stiffness and reserve because they realised instinctively not only that he loved them but that he enjoyed and needed their company."[96] Illness and death[edit] Portrait by Winterhalter, 1859 In August 1859, Albert fell seriously ill with stomach cramps.[97] His steadily worsening medical condition led to a sense of despair. He lost the will to live, says biographer Robert Rhodes James.[98] He had an accidental brush with death during a trip to Coburg in October 1860, when he was driving alone in a carriage drawn by four horses that suddenly bolted. As the horses continued to gallop toward a wagon waiting at a railway crossing, Albert jumped for his life from the carriage. One of the horses was killed in the collision, and Albert was badly shaken, though his only physical injuries were cuts and bruises. He confided in his brother and eldest daughter that he had sensed his time had come.[99] Victoria's mother and Albert's aunt, the Duchess of Kent, died in March 1861, and Victoria was grief-stricken. Albert took on most of the Queen's duties despite continuing to suffer with chronic stomach trouble.[100] The last public event he presided over was the opening of the Royal Horticultural Gardens on 5 June 1861.[101] In August, Victoria and Albert visited the Curragh Camp, Ireland, where the Prince of Wales was attending army manoeuvres. At the Curragh, the Prince of Wales was introduced, by his fellow officers, to Nellie Clifden, an Irish actress.[102] By November, Victoria and Albert had returned to Windsor, and the Prince of Wales had returned to Cambridge, where he was a student. Two of Albert's young cousins, brothers King Pedro V of Portugal and Prince Ferdinand, died of typhoid fever within five days of each other in early November.[103] On top of this news, Albert was informed that gossip was spreading in gentlemen's clubs and the foreign press that the Prince of Wales was still involved with Nellie Clifden.[104] Albert and Victoria were horrified by their son's indiscretion, and feared blackmail, scandal or pregnancy.[105] Although Albert was ill and at a low ebb, he travelled to Cambridge to see the Prince of Wales on 25 November[106] to discuss his son's indiscreet affair.[53] In his final weeks Albert suffered from pains in his back and legs.[107] Also in November 1861, the Trent affair—the forcible removal of Confederate envoys from a British ship by Union forces during the American Civil War—threatened war between the United States and Britain. The British government prepared an ultimatum and readied a military response. Albert was gravely ill but intervened to defuse the crisis.[108] In a few hours, he revised the British demands in a manner that allowed the Lincoln administration to surrender the Confederate commissioners who had been seized from the Trent and to issue a public apology to London without losing face. The key idea, based on a suggestion from The Times, was to give Washington the opportunity to deny it had officially authorised the seizure and thereby apologise for the captain's mistake.[109] On 9 December, one of Albert's doctors, William Jenner, diagnosed him with typhoid fever. Albert died at 10:50 p.m. on 14 December 1861 in the Blue Room at Windsor Castle, in the presence of the Queen and five of their nine children.[110] The contemporary diagnosis was typhoid fever, but modern writers have pointed out that Albert's ongoing stomach pain, leaving him ill for at least two years before his death, may indicate that a chronic disease, such as Crohn's disease,[111] kidney failure, or abdominal cancer, was the cause of death.[112] Legacy[edit] Further information: Royal eponyms in Canada The Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, London Royal Albert Hall, London The Queen's grief was overwhelming, and the tepid feelings the public had felt previously for Albert were replaced by sympathy.[113] The widowed Victoria never recovered from Albert's death; she entered into a deep state of mourning and wore black for the rest of her life. Albert's rooms in all his houses were kept as they had been, even with hot water brought in the morning and linen and towels changed daily.[114] Such practices were not uncommon in the houses of the very rich.[115] Victoria withdrew from public life and her seclusion eroded some of Albert's work in attempting to re-model the monarchy as a national institution setting a moral, if not political, example.[116] Albert is credited with introducing the principle that the British royal family should remain above politics.[117] Before his marriage to Victoria, she supported the Whigs; for example, early in her reign Victoria managed to thwart the formation of a Tory government by Sir Robert Peel by refusing to accept substitutions which Peel wanted to make among her ladies-in-waiting.[118] Albert's body was temporarily entombed in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.[119] A year after his death his remains were deposited at Frogmore Mausoleum, which remained incomplete until 1871.[120] The sarcophagus, in which both he and the Queen were eventually laid, was carved from the largest block of granite that had ever been quarried in Britain.[121] Despite Albert's request that no effigies of him should be raised, many public monuments were erected all over the country and across the British Empire.[122] The most notable are the Royal Albert Hall and the Albert Memorial in London. The plethora of memorials erected to Albert became so great that Charles Dickens told a friend that he sought an "inaccessible cave" to escape from them.[123] Places and objects named after Albert range from Lake Albert in Africa to the city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to the Albert Medal presented by the Royal Society of Arts. Four regiments of the British Army were named after him: 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars; Prince Albert's Light Infantry; Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry; and The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade. He and Queen Victoria showed a keen interest in the establishment and development of Aldershot in Hampshire as a garrison town in the 1850s. They had a wooden Royal Pavilion built there in which they would often stay when attending military reviews.[124] Albert established and endowed the Prince Consort's Library at Aldershot, which still exists today.[125] Biographies published after his death were typically heavy on eulogy. Theodore Martin's five-volume magnum opus was authorised and supervised by Queen Victoria, and her influence shows in its pages. Nevertheless, it is an accurate and exhaustive account.[126] Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria (1921) was more critical, but it was discredited in part by mid-twentieth-century biographers such as Hector Bolitho and Roger Fulford, who (unlike Strachey) had access to Victoria's journal and letters.[127] Popular myths about Prince Albert—such as the claim that he introduced Christmas trees to Britain—are dismissed by scholars.[128] Recent biographers such as Stanley Weintraub portray Albert as a figure in a tragic romance who died too soon and was mourned by his lover for a lifetime.[53] In the 2009 movie The Young Victoria, Albert, played by Rupert Friend, is made into an heroic character; in the fictionalised depiction of the 1840 shooting, he is struck by a bullet—something that did not happen in real life.[129][130] Titles, styles, honours and arms[edit] Titles and styles[edit] Albert robed as a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, 1842 In the United Kingdom, Albert was styled "His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" in the months before his marriage.[25] He was granted the style of Royal Highness on 6 February 1840,[1] and given the title of Prince Consort on 25 June 1857.[33] British honours[edit] KG: Royal Knight of the Garter, 16 December 1839[131] GCB: Knight Grand Cross of the Bath (military), 6 March 1840;[132] Great Master, 25 May 1847[133] GCMG: Knight Grand Cross of St Michael and St George, 15 January 1842[134] KT: Knight of the Thistle, 17 January 1842[135] KP: Extra and Principal Knight of St. Patrick, 20 January 1842[136] KSI: Extra Knight of the Star of India, 25 June 1861[137] Military appointments[edit] Field Marshal of the British Army, 8 February 1840[138] Colonel-in-chief of the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars, 30 April 1840 – 1842[138] Colonel of the Scots Fusilier Guards, 25 April 1842 – 1852[138] Captain-general and Colonel of the Honourable Artillery Company, 1843[138] Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle, 1843[139] Colonel-in-chief of the 60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot, 15 August 1850 – 1852[138] Colonel of the 1st Grenadier Guards, 23 August 1852[138] Colonel-in-chief of the Rifle Brigade, 23 September 1852[138] Foreign honours[edit] Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, February 1836[140]  Portugal:[141] Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ, 23 April 1836 Grand Cross of the Sash of the Two Orders (Aviz and St. James), 30 September 1857 Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword, 25 November 1858  Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, 18 November 1839 – wedding gift[142]  Saxony: Knight of the Rue Crown, 1839[143]  Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: Grand Cross of the White Falcon, 13 January 1840[144] Spain: Knight of the Golden Fleece, 27 April 1841[145] Prussia:[146] Knight of the Black Eagle, 30 January 1842 Grand Cross of the Red Eagle, 30 January 1842  Sardinia: Knight of the Annunciation, 13 December 1842[147]  Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion, 1842[148]  Denmark: Knight of the Elephant, 10 January 1843[149]  Russia:[150] Knight of St. Andrew, 1 July 1843 Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky, 1 July 1843 Knight of the White Eagle, 1 July 1843 Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class, 1 July 1843 France: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, 5 September 1843[151]  Austria: Grand Cross of St. Stephen, 1843[152]  Württemberg: Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1843[153]  Baden:[154] Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1845 Grand Cross of the Zähringer Lion, 1845  Bavaria: Knight of St. Hubert, 1845[155]  Two Sicilies: Grand Cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit, 1846[148]  Hanover:[156] Knight of St. George, 1853 Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order, 1853  Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion[139] Sweden-Norway: Knight of the Seraphim, 12 February 1856[157]  Ottoman Empire: Order of the Medjidie, 1st Class in Diamonds, 1856[148] Arms[edit] Coat of arms of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as granted in 1840 Upon his marriage to Queen Victoria in 1840, 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.[1][158] They are blazoned: "Quarterly, 1st and 4th, the Royal Arms, with overall a label of three points Argent charged on the centre with cross Gules; 2nd and 3rd, Barry of ten Or and Sable, a crown of rue in bend Vert".[159] The arms are unusual, being described by S. T. Aveling as a "singular example of quartering differenced arms, [which] is not in accordance with the rules of Heraldry, and is in itself an heraldic contradiction."[160] Prior to his marriage Albert used the arms of his father undifferenced, in accordance with German custom. Albert's Garter stall plate displays his arms surmounted by a royal crown with six crests for the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; these are from left to right: 1. "A bull's head caboshed Gules armed and ringed Argent, crowned Or, the rim chequy Gules and Argent" for Mark. 2. "Out of a coronet Or, two buffalo horns Argent, attached to the outer edge of five branches fesswise each with three linden leaves Vert" for Thuringia. 3. "Out of a coronet Or, a pyramidal chapeau charged with the arms of Saxony ensigned by a plume of peacock feathers Proper out of a coronet also Or" for Saxony. 4. "A bearded man in profile couped below the shoulders clothed paly Argent and Gules, the pointed coronet similarly paly terminating in a plume of three peacock feathers" for Meissen. 5. "A demi griffin displayed Or, winged Sable, collared and langued Gules" for Jülich. 6. "Out of a coronet Or, a panache of peacock feathers Proper" for Berg.[159] The supporters were the crowned lion of England and the unicorn of Scotland (as in the Royal Arms) charged on the shoulder with a label as in the arms. Albert's personal motto is the German Treu und Fest (Loyal and Sure).[159] This motto was also used by Prince Albert's Own or the 11th Hussars. Issue[edit] See also: Grandchildren of Victoria and Albert Name Birth Death Notes[161] Victoria, Princess Royal 21 November 1840 5 August 1901 married 1858, Crown Prince Frederick, later Frederick III, German Emperor; had issue Edward VII of the United Kingdom 9 November 1841 6 May 1910 married 1863, Princess Alexandra of Denmark; had issue Princess Alice 25 April 1843 14 December 1878 married 1862, Prince Louis, later Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine; had issue Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 6 August 1844 30 July 1900 married 1874, Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia; had issue Princess Helena 25 May 1846 9 June 1923 married 1866, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein; had issue Princess Louise 18 March 1848 3 December 1939 married 1871, John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, later 9th Duke of Argyll; no issue Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn 1 May 1850 16 January 1942 married 1879, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia; had issue Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany 7 April 1853 28 March 1884 married 1882, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont; had issue Princess Beatrice 14 April 1857 26 October 1944 married 1885, Prince Henry of Battenberg; had issue Prince Albert's 42 grandchildren included four reigning monarchs: King George V of the United Kingdom; Wilhelm II, German Emperor; Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse; and Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and five consorts of monarchs: Queens Maud of Norway, Sophia of Greece, Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Marie of Romania, and Empress Alexandra of Russia. Albert's many descendants include royalty and nobility throughout Europe. Victoria and Albert's family in 1846 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter left to right: Prince Alfred (unbreeched at two years); the Prince of Wales; the Queen; Prince Albert; and Princesses Alice, Helena and Victoria Ancestry[edit] Ancestors of Albert, Prince Consort 8. Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld[163] 4. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld[162] 9. Sophia Antonia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel[163] 2. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha[162] 10. Henry XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf[163] 5. Countess Augusta Caroline Reuss of Ebersdorf[162] 11. Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg[163] 1. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 12. Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg[163] 6. Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg[162] 13. Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen[163] 3. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg[162] 14. Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin[163] 7. Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin[162] 15. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg[163] See also[edit] John Brown List of coupled cousins Royal Albert Memorial Museum References[edit] ^ a b c d "No. 19821". 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Stewart, Jules (2012). Albert: A Life. London; New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-977-7. OCLC 760284773. Weintraub, Stanley (1997). Albert: Uncrowned King. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-5756-9. Weintraub, Stanley (September 2004). "Albert [Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha] (1819–1861)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online, January 2008 ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/274. Retrieved 4 August 2009. (subscription required) Weir, Alison (1996). Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (Revised ed.). London: Random House. ISBN 978-0-7126-7448-5. Further reading[edit] Eyck, Frank. The Prince Consort: a political biography (Chatto, 1959), a scholarly study online. Haspel, Paul. "England's Unsung Hero of the American Civil War." North & South: The Official Magazine of the Civil War Society (July 2007) ,`0#2 pp 48-52; how Prince Albert aided the peaceful resolution of the 'Trent' affair in 1861. Hough, Richard. Victoria & Albert: Their Love & Their Tragedies (1996) 240pp Lalumia, Christine. "Scrooge and Albert" History Today (2001) 51#12 pp. 23–29. LeMay, G. H. L. "Prince Albert and the British Constitution" History Today (1953) 3#6 pp. 411–416. Rappaport, Helen. Magnificent obsession: Victoria, Albert and the death that changed the monarchy (Random House, 2011). Walton, Oliver. "Distant patron: Prince Albert and the Development of the Coburg-Gotha Economy." Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2008.1 (2008): 117-130. online External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Albert, Prince Consort. Wikiquote has quotations related to: Albert, Prince Consort Albert, Prince Consort at the Encyclopædia Britannica Portraits of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha at the National Portrait Gallery, London Works by Albert, Prince Consort at Project Gutenberg Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at the Royal Collection Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Albert (Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel)" . 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Prince Consort Albert, England and Europe, Virtual exhibition of bavarikon Prince Albert (1819–1861), BBC History UK Parliamentary Archives, Oaths of Prince Albert, Duke of Saxe, Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha Albert, Prince Consort House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Cadet branch of the House of Wettin Born: 26 August 1819 Died: 14 December 1861 British royalty VacantTitle last held by Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen as queen consort Consort of the British monarch (created "Prince Consort" 1857) 1840–1861 VacantTitle next held by Alexandra of Denmark as queen consort Military offices Preceded by Philip Philpot Colonel of the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars 1840–1842 Succeeded by Sir Arthur Benjamin Clifton Preceded by The Earl Ludlow Colonel of the Scots Fusilier Guards 1842–1852 Succeeded by The Duke of Cambridge Preceded by The Duke of Wellington Colonel of the Grenadier Guards 1852–1861 Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle Brigade 1852–1861 Succeeded by The Lord Seaton Court offices Preceded by 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Wilflete John Harrison William Wilflete Edward Story Thomas Rotherham (or Scot) Edward Story Thomas Rotherham John Boynton Thomas Rotherham Thomas Cosyn John Blythe George Fitzhugh Thomas Rotherham Richard Fox George Fitzhugh Thomas Ruthall (or Rowthall) John Fisher Thomas Cromwell Stephen Gardiner Edward Seymour The Duke of Northumberland Stephen Gardiner Reginald Pole The Lord Burghley The Earl of Essex The Earl of Salisbury The Earl of Northampton The Earl of Suffolk The Duke of Buckingham The Earl of Holland The Earl of Manchester Oliver St John The Duke of Manchester The Duke of Buckingham The Duke of Monmouth The Duke of Albemarle The Duke of Somerset Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle The Duke of Grafton HRH The Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh The Marquess Camden The Duke of Northumberland HRH The Prince Consort The Duke of Devonshire The Duke of Devonshire The Lord Rayleigh The Earl of Balfour The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Jan Smuts The Lord Tedder The Lord Adrian HRH The Duke of Edinburgh David Sainsbury v t e British consorts George of Denmark (1707–1708) Caroline of Ansbach (1727–1737) Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1761–1818) Caroline of Brunswick (1820–1821) Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1830–1837) Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1840–1861) Alexandra of Denmark (1901–1910) Mary of Teck (1910–1936) Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1936–1952) Philip Mountbatten (1952–present) v t e Princes of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld The generations are numbered from the union of Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Saalfeld in 1699 1st generation Christian Ernst II* Francis Josias* 2nd generation Ernest Frederick Prince Josias 3rd generation Francis 4th generation Ernest III Prince Ferdinand** Leopold I of Belgium** 5th generation Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha** Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom** Ferdinand II of Portugal** Prince August** Prince Leopold** * prince of Saxe-Saalfeld until 1699 ** became prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1826 v t e Princes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Forefather Duke Francis I* 1st generation Duke Ernest I* Prince Ferdinand* King Leopold I of the Belgians* 2nd generation Ducal Duke Ernest II* Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom* Koháry King Ferdinand II of Portugal and the Algarves* Prince August* Prince Leopold* Belgium Crown Prince Louis Philippe King Leopold II Prince Philippe 3rd generation United Kingdom King Edward VII Duke Alfred I Prince Arthur Prince Leopold Portugal King Pedro V King Luís I Infante João Infante Fernando Infante Augusto Koháry Prince Philipp Prince Ludwig August Tsar Ferdinand I of the Bulgarians Belgium Prince Leopold Prince Baudouin King Albert I 4th generation United Kingdom Prince Albert Victor King George V Hereditary Prince Alfred Prince Arthur Duke Charles Edward I Portugal King Carlos I Infante Afonso Koháry Prince Leopold Clement Prince Pedro Augusto Prince August Leopold Prince Joseph Ferdinand Prince Ludwig Gaston Bulgaria Tsar Boris III Prince Kiril Belgium King Leopold III Prince Charles 5th generation United Kingdom King Edward VIII King George VI Prince Henry Prince George Prince John Prince Alastair Ducal Hereditary Prince Johann Leopold Prince Hubertus Prince Friedrich Josias Portugal Prince Luís Filipe King Manuel II Koháry Prince Rainer Prince Philipp Bulgaria Tsar Simeon II Belgium King Baudouin I King Albert II Prince Alexandre 6th generation Ducal Prince Andreas Koháry Prince Johannes Heinrich Bulgaria Prince Kardam Prince Kyril Belgium King Philippe I Prince Laurent 7th generation Bulgaria Prince Boris Belgium Prince Gabriel Prince Emmanuel *Titled as Princes of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld before 11 February 1826 v t e British princes The generations indicate descent from George I, who formalised the use of the titles prince and princess for members of the British royal family. 1st generation King George II 2nd generation Frederick, Prince of Wales Prince George William Prince William, Duke of Cumberland 3rd generation King George III Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn Prince Frederick 4th generation King George IV Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany King William IV Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn King Ernest Augustus of Hanover Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge Prince Octavius Prince Alfred Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh 5th generation Prince Albert1 King George V of Hanover Prince George, Duke of Cambridge 6th generation King Edward VII Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany Prince Ernest Augustus 7th generation Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale King George V Prince Alexander John of Wales Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince Arthur of Connaught Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince George William of Hanover Prince Christian of Hanover Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick 8th generation King Edward VIII King George VI Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester Prince George, Duke of Kent Prince John Alastair, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover Prince George William of Hanover 9th generation Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh2 Prince William of Gloucester Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester Prince Edward, Duke of Kent Prince Michael of Kent 10th generation Charles, Prince of Wales Prince Andrew, Duke of York Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex 11th generation Prince William, Duke of Cambridge Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex James, Viscount Severn3 12th generation Prince George of Cambridge Prince Louis of Cambridge 1 Not a British prince by birth, but created Prince Consort. 2 Not a British prince by birth, but created a Prince of 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