"Victoria and Albert made [the monarchy] respectable and popular – it had been neither of those things before they came to the throne. They had children, they were public servants – they were ...

In the early years of their marriage, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were also keen artists, etching their children, pets and literary scenes, at Windsor Castle and Claremont, where they had a ...

prince consort in July 1857 was ridiculed in the press but explained as required by the imminence of having their adult children outrank their father, "a foreign prince." Victoria and Albert.