![]() I NEVER, NEVER spent such an evening!!! MY DEAREST DEAREST DEAR Albert . ![]() She spent the evening after their wedding lying down with a headache, but wrote ecstatically in her diary: They were married on 10 February 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. Albert and Victoria felt mutual affection and the Queen proposed to him on 15 October 1839, just five days after he had arrived at Windsor. Victoria continued to praise Albert following his second visit in October 1839. She showed interest in Albert's education for the future role he would have to play as her husband, but she resisted attempts to rush her into wedlock. When Victoria complained to Lord Melbourne that her mother's close proximity promised "torment for many years", Melbourne sympathised but said it could be avoided by marriage, which Victoria called a "shocking alternative". Her mother was consigned to a remote apartment in Buckingham Palace, and Victoria often refused to meet her. Though she was queen, Victoria as an unmarried young woman, was required by social convention to live with her mother, despite their differences over the Kensington System and her mother's continued reliance on Sir John Conroy. The wedding of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (later Prince Consort) took place on 10 February 1840 at Chapel Royal, St. Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore (, Buckingham Palace, London-, Brantridge Park, Sussex), she married Prince Henry of Battenberg and would have four children including Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, Victoria Eugenie Queen of Spain and Maurice who died in the first world war in 1914, he had been mentioned in despatched a few times.10 February 1840 183 years ago ( 10 February 1840).Leopold George Duncan Albert (, Buckingham Palace, London-, Cannes, France) he married Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont and would have two children including Charles Edward who upon the death of Alfred in 1900 inherited the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.Arthur William Patrick Albert (, Buckingham Palace, London-, Bagshot Park, Surrey), he married Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia and would have three children including Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden.Louise Caroline Alberta (, Buckingham Palace, London-, Kensington Palace, London), she married John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll a liberal politician, they had no children.Helena Augusta Victoria (, Buckingham Palace, London-, Schomberg House, London), she married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, fifteen years older than Helena the couple would have four children, their eldest a son named Christian died of malaria in Pretoria, South Africa he was thirty three, their second son Albert inherited the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein. ![]() Alfred Ernest Albert (, Windsor Castle, Berkshire-, Rosenau Castle, Coburg), he inherited the German ducky of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha upon his uncle’s death, he married Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, daughter of Emperor Alexander II, they would have five children which included Marie, Queen of Romania and Victoria Melita who married twice firstly to her cousin Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine which ended unhappily and secondly to Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, who was the nephew of the Grand Duchess Maria so again she married a first cousin, she was the mother of four children one by her first husband and three by her second. ![]()
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