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Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel
Prince + Knight + Military Person
Male
Hometown
German Confederation
Death Place
United Kingdom of...
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland. He 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 20 he married his first… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
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.
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1824
4 Years Old
Albert and his elder brother, Ernest, spent their youth in a close companionship scarred by their parents' turbulent marriage and eventual separation and divorce. After their mother was exiled from court in 1824, she married her lover, Alexander von Hanstein, Count of Polzig and Beiersdorf.
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1825
5 Years Old
In 1825, Albert's great-uncle, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, died.
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TEENAGE
By 1836, the idea of marriage between Albert and his cousin, Victoria, had arisen in the mind of their ambitious uncle, Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831.
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Albert returned to England with Ernest in October 1839 to visit the Queen, with the object of settling the marriage.
TWENTIES
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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.
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In early 1841, he successfully removed the nursery from Lehzen's pervasive control, and in September 1842, Lehzen left England permanently—much to Albert's relief.
1842
22 Years Old
Albert and Victoria were shot at again on both 29 and 30 May 1842, but were unhurt.
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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.
1846
26 Years Old
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. 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.
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1847
27 Years Old
In 1847, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, but only after a close contest with the Earl of Powis, who was killed accidentally by his own son during a pheasant shoot the following year.
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THIRTIES
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He was heavily involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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1858
38 Years Old
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He felt keenly the departure of his eldest daughter for Prussia when she married her fiancé at the beginning of 1858, 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.
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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.
FORTIES
1860
40 Years Old
During a trip to Coburg in the autumn of 1860, Albert was driving alone in a carriage drawn by four horses that suddenly bolted.
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The last public event he presided over was the opening of the Royal Horticultural Gardens on 5 June 1861.
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