1-216-901 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, husband and consort of Queen Victoria, c1840-1861 (1910). Prince Albert (1819-1861) married his first cousin, Queen Victoria, in 1840. In 1857 he was given the title Prince Consort and became the Queen's private advisor. He was interested in arts, science and industry and planned the Great Exhibition of 1851. His death in 1861, from typhoid fever, was a crushing blow to Queen Victoria, who wore mourning dress for the remaining 40 years of her life. A print from The Connoisseur, (London, 1910).