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The tomb of Victoria and Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum The interment at the Frogmore Mausolem took place on 4 February. The procession from St George's Chapel was accompanied by massed military bands playing funeral marches, but in the final part of the journey, pipers played a lament , the Black Watch Dead March.
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 his continuing chronic stomach trouble. [103] The last public event over which he presided was the opening of the Royal Horticultural Gardens on 5 June 1861. [104]
The effigy of Albert was the last work completed before Marochetti's death. [13] Albert is depicted in his Field marshal uniform wearing his Order of the Garter. [14] The effigy of Victoria was completed at the same time, and kept in storage until her death. It was mined from the Cairngail quarry in Longside, Aberdeenshire.
English: The body of Queen Victoria on her deathbed, 1901. The Queen is lying on a bed, surrounded by white fabric, holding a cross. There are portraits of Prince Albert above the bed, and to the side. Flowers surround the Queen.
Albert, Prince Consort, the husband of Queen Victoria, died in the Blue Room on 14 December 1861. [4] He had asked to be moved to the room because of the strong light from its tall windows. [ 4 ] In the aftermath of his death Victoria decreed that the room should "be kept in its present state" and "not made use of in the future". [ 5 ]
The first of two mausoleums within the Frogmore Gardens is the burial place of Queen Victoria's mother, Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the Duchess of Kent.The Mausoleum was designed by the architect A J Humbert, to a concept design by Prince Albert's favourite artist, Professor Ludwig Gruner.
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Victoria in later life wearing a white mourning cap (1883) After Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died of typhoid on 14 December 1861, she wore mourning dress for more than forty years until her own death in 1901. She fully mourned for three years and dressed her whole court the same way. The queen's conduct strengthened traditions of ...