Prince Albert

There was much political turmoil amongst Members of Parliament on public notification of the marriage, owing to the prince's German heritage and Victoria's position of power combined with her gender and her youth. Albert was...

He attracted her attention when he contactedAlbert in the world beyond, and transmitted a message which included Albert's secret pet-name.

John Brown , a Highlander, had first entered the service of the royal family in 1851; Victoria's biographer Elizabeth Longford says she first mentioned him in her journal on 11 September 1849. After Prince Albert

The queen was grief-stricken at his death. Her devastation resembled that which she had experienced after the death of Prince Albert . In a letter to her secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby , she compared the...

FN visited the Queen and the Prince on 21 September 1856 at Balmoral, where she pleaded the case for military hospital reform. A few years later, the Queen offered her an apartment in Kensington...

A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald , Coventry Patmore , Edward Lear , William Ewart Gladstone

Queen Victoria , with Prince Albert and their eldest daughter , reviewed the Eighth Hussars at Portsmouth on their return from the Crimean War. She bowed deeply to FID , though she did not speak to her.

Lewes , who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...

Unlike the flowery language of her editor, QV 's diction is simple and the prose style concise. Although the journal entries make implicit references to class, the omission of overt discussions of governmental affairs and...

She wrote this poem, she said in her preface, during the violent and unjust, but luckily short-lived, popular outcry against the Prince Consort . An illness prevented her from getting it into print until the...

QV opened Parliament for the first time since Prince Albert 's death nearly five years before.

Queen Victoria wrote to her during the war, and after the peace spoke highly of her achievements abroad. The monarch sent her a personal letter and an engraved, enameled, and jeweled brooch designed by the...

Some time in 1844 ER had her picture taken by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson . The resulting Talbotype, entitled Elizabeth Rigby, was the first example of photography viewed by Prince Albert .

FB's biographer Brita K. Stendahl sees her as a woman of the early liberal era, given to good causes: women's rights, pensions for women teachers, orphanages for cholera victims' children, freedom of movement for Jews...

Tennyson had a closer personal relationship than any other writer with the Queen. QV and her court appointed him Poet Laureate on 19 November 1850. Following Prince Albert 's death and the Queen's deepened appreciation...