Albert, Prince consort

(1819 – 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. He 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 his first cousin, Queen Victoria; they had nine children. Albert died at the early age of 42 in 1861, plunging Victoria into deep mourning, which lasted for the rest of her life.