Prince Albert

For over six decades Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was her beloved husband and the father of their nine children Prince Albert. A composer engineer soldier politician linguist and bibliophile Albert was one of the architects of Victorian Britain's transformation as a centre of political technological scientific and intellectual advancement. Albert lived only forty-two years but fathered four royal dynasties and helped pioneer the modern constitutional monarchy. Drawn from the Royal archives including Prince Albert's own correspondence this biography offers never-before-known details about the man and his time giving Albert the reverence and recognition that is long overdue.