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Prince Albert, c.1861 by J.J.E. Mayall This photograph is included in a Royal Collection book and touring exhibition Roger Fenton • Julia Margaret Cameron: Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection at the Aberdeen Art Gallery, 12 June - 21 August 2010 and Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere, 31 January - 25 April 2011. The Royal Collection © 2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Victoria's season three ends in a cliffhanger regarding Prince Albert's health, but here's the true story of his passing.

1840 Prince Albert (1819-1861) RCIN 420665 Reference(s): Vic Min 708 --- Cust 1910 14/5 --- XQG 1983 K 101 http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/420665/prince-albert-1819-1861

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The queen and her prince. 1840’s

William Essex trained as an enamel painter in the workshop of Charles Muss (1779 – 1824), Enamel Painter to William IV. Essex first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1818 and throughout the 1820s and early 1830s built up a successful practice, working chiefly in enamel. William Essex must have had his first introduction to court circles through Charles Muss. He may initially have worked in collaboration with his teacher, but by 1827 was earning his own commissions from George IV. In 1834…

Historian Lucy Worsley said she believed Prince Albert, right, wanted his wife Queen Victo...

Photography, and Queen Victoria's interest in it, emerged into public light with the Great Exhibition of 1851, partly Prince Albert’s brainchild. Many of the astonishing six million people who visited the exhibition in Hyde Park saw photographs for the first time, a number of which can be seen at a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum and in the handsome accompanying book by Anne M. Lyden, both called “A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography.”

Five things to know about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's 'full-on passionate marriage,' including their unique door locks and nine children.

Here are five unknown facts about Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria.

Oval porcelain plaque painted with a portrait of Prince Albert, after the picture by Winterhalter painted in 1846. English, 1870. The plaque was made by Minton & Co. and decorated by the students of the South Kensington Porcelain Class.

Prince Albert (1819 - 1861) by Alexander melville (1823 - 1892), after Franz Xavier winterhalter (1805 - 1873) ~ ~ ~ #queenvictoria…

Photograph of a full length portrait of Prince Albert (1819-61) standing, facing the camera front on. He poses with his arms crossed in front of his body. He holds a light colour top hat under his left arm. Photograph taken at Windsor Castle.

Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their nine children. Each child made their…

Prince Albert, Prince Consort

Rupert Friend as Prince Albert in Young Victoria

Painting of the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1840.

Although some experts still disagree about the cause of Prince Albert’s untimely demise, the most likely culprit seems to be the bacterium Salmonella typhi.