A Royal Love Story | Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

First cousins Albert and Victoria met in 1836, on Princess Victoria's 17th
birthday. Later, Victoria wrote to her uncle, King Leopold of Belgium,
thanking him for introducing them and wrote in her diary that Albert drew
her attention from the moment she met him in 1836.

"He is extremely handsome; his hair is about the same color as

mine; his eyes are large & blue & he has a beautiful nose & a very
sweet mouth with fine teeth."

Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (later taking the title of Prince Consort)
was married to Queen Victoria on 10 February 1840. Their wedding took
place at the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace in London. Queen Victoria,
supported by her consort Prince Albert, ruled through a period of great
change; the Industrial Revolution and the expansion of the British.

The couple were married for 21 years until Albert's death on 14

December 1861 at the age of 42. Her grief bordered on the obsessive as she
withdrew from public life and wore black for the rest of her life, earning the nickname
the 'widow of Windsor' and allegedly instructed housekeepers to keep bringing hot water into
his room for his mourning shave and daily towel changes. Queen Victoria passed away at the
age of 81 on January 22, 1901. Both were buried next to each other in the Royal Mausoleum
that the Queen had built for her husband at Frogmore House.