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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 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.
After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, British republicanism temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign, her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond jubilees were times of public celebration.
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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 ]
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.
Queen Victoria with the five surviving children of her daughter, Princess Alice, dressed in mourning clothing for their mother and their sister Princess Marie in early 1879 The five daughters of Prince Albert wore black dresses and posed for a portrait with his statue following his death in 1861.
In 1861, Prince Albert died. [5] Queen Victoria went into mourning and withdrew from public life for ten years. [6] That year Britain purchased Egypt's shares in the Suez Canal [1] as the African nation was forced to raise money to pay off its debts.