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Albert became an important political adviser as well as the Queen's companion, replacing Lord Melbourne as the dominant, influential figure in the first half of her life. [7] The wedding of Victoria and Albert remains the most recent wedding of a reigning British monarch.
The Lady May Cambridge (17), daughter of Princess Alice and the Earl of Athlone, niece of Queen Mary and thus first cousin of the groom; The Lady Mary Thynn (20), daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Bath; The Lady Katharine Hamilton (23), daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn; The Hon Diamond Hardinge (22), daughter of Lord and ...
Prince Albert was born on 26 August 1819 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] His first cousin and future wife, Victoria, had been born earlier in the same year with the assistance of the same midwife, Charlotte von Siebold. [3]
Baron Christian Louis and Baroness Cécilie Noghès de Massy, the groom's first cousin and his wife. Jonkvrouw Leticia and Jonkheer Thomas of Brouwer, the groom's first cousin, once removed, and her husband [37] Brice Noghès de Massy, the groom's first cousin, once removed; Antoine Noghès de Massy, the groom's first cousin, once removed
The Princess Royal as a young child. Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1842.. Princess Victoria was born on 21 November 1840 at Buckingham Palace, London.She was the first child of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert.
The wedding of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), and Princess Alexandra of Denmark (later Queen Alexandra) took place on 10 March 1863 at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. It was the first royal wedding to take place at St. George's, and the last wedding of a Prince of Wales until Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer's ...
Given that Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, would reach the age of twenty in November 1861, his parents Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, were taking steps to find a bride for him. They enlisted the aid of their eldest (and already-married) daughter, Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia , in seeking a suitable candidate.
[9] [10] Their wedding was the first royal wedding to take place in St James's Chapel since the death of Prince Albert in 1861, which plunged Queen Victoria into deep mourning. Most of Albert and Victoria's own children were married in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle , in relative seclusion.