Kdo se je poročil s Albert, Prince Consort?

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.

Albert was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. At the age of 20, he married Victoria, his first cousin, with whom he had nine children. Initially, he felt constrained by his role as consort, which did not afford him power or responsibilities. He gradually developed a reputation for supporting public causes, such as educational reform and the abolition of slavery worldwide, and he was entrusted with running the Queen's household, office and estates. He was heavily involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851, which was a resounding success.

Victoria came to depend more and more on Albert's support and guidance. He aided the development of Britain's constitutional monarchy by persuading his wife to be less partisan in her dealings with the British parliament, but he actively disagreed with the interventionist foreign policy pursued during Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston's tenure as Foreign Secretary. Albert died in 1861 at the age of 42, devastating Victoria so much that she entered into a deep state of mourning and wore black for the rest of her life. On the day of her death in 1901, their eldest son succeeded as Edward VII, the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, named after the ducal house to which Albert belonged.

Viktorija (rojena Alexandrina Victoria), kraljica Združenega kraljestva Velike Britanije in Irske, * 24. maj 1819, † 22. januar 1901.

Viktorija je bila kraljica Združenega kraljestva Velike Britanije in Irske od 20. junija 1837 in cesarica Indije od 1. januarja 1877 do smrti. Njena vladavina je trajala več kot 63 let, kar je bil rekord med britanskimi monarhi, do leta 2015, ko jo je po dolžini staža presegla njena prapravnukinja Elizabeta II. Viktorija je bila zadnja vladarka iz hiše Hannover, njen naslednik, Edvard VII., je pripadal hiši Saška-Coburg in Gotha.

Obdobje Viktorijine vladavine je bilo zaznamovano z veliko širitvijo britanskega imperija. Njeno obdobje, imenovano tudi viktorijanska doba, je predstavljalo vrh industrijske revolucije, čas velikih socialnih, ekonomskih in tehnoloških sprememb.

Po njej so poimenovali Viktorijine slapove na reki Zambezi, Viktorijino jezero v vzhodnoafriškem Jezerskem višavju, avstralski državi Viktorija in Queensland, glavna mesta kanadskih provinc Britanske Kolumbije (Victoria) in Saskatchewana (Regina) ter Sejšelov (Viktorija), posredno pa se po njej imenuje tudi železniška postaja in prometno vozlišče Viktorija (Victoria) v Londonu, ki je dobilo ime po Viktorijini ulici (Victoria street).