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Victoria continued to praise Albert following his second visit in October 1839. Albert and Victoria felt mutual affection and the Queen proposed to him on 15 October 1839, just five days after he had arrived at Windsor. [5] They were married on 10 February 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, London. Victoria was besotted.
They were married on 10 February 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace, London. Victoria was love-struck. ... Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times 1819–1861 ...
As such, he was 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. 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 20, he married Victoria, his first cousin, with ...
10 February 1840: Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, only daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, granddaughter of King George III, and successor of King William IV, was married to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, younger son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, London.
Princess Alexandrina became Queen Victoria upon the death of her uncle in 1837. ... married. She died on September 22, 1840 at age 71. Princess Elizabeth b. 1770 — d. 1840. Universal History ...
The Marriage of Queen Victoria is an 1842 painting by the British artist George Hayter. It depicts the wedding between Queen Victoria , reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, and her prince consort Albert on 10 February 1840 at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace in London .
married 1847, Sarah Fairbrother; had issue (in contravention of Royal Marriages Act 1772. All issue illegitimate) Daughter of Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland: April 1818: Stillborn Queen Victoria: 24 May 1819: 22 January 1901: married 1840, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; had issue George V of Hanover: 27 May 1819: 12 June 1878
But while Victoria herself died in 1901, leaving the throne to her eldest son, King Edward VII, the queen's legacy on the monarchies of Europe lives on even in modern times.