Victoria prince

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

Historian Lucy Worsley told 1,700 people at the Hay Festival that while Queen Victoria was pregnant with her nine children he was effectively 'king in all but name'.

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An article in The Oldie claims that after the death of her husband, Albert, Victoria sought sexual solace with her uncouth, arrogant and heavy-drinking Highland ghillie, John Brown.

Albert encouraged Victoria to believe that she was weak, inadequate and unable to cope without him. In her desire to please him she abdicated most of her responsibilities as monarch to her consort.

01. Queen Victoria, the matriarch of the British Empire proposed to her future husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha because according to tradition a man couldn’t propose to the queen.

In an era of unbridled patriarchy, when women were advocating passionately for the right to vote, Queen Victoria was such a formidable figure that an entire period is named after her: the Victorian age. When we think of Victorian England, Victorian houses, or the Victorian style, we tend to think…

Nicholas Romanov & Queen Victoria

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