Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, died at the age of forty-two after a sudden attack of typhoid fever at ten minutes to eleven p.m. in the Blue Room at Windsor Castle. Albert, the father of Victoria's nine children, had shown ill-health for much of the year. The death of the popular, innovative and reform-minded consort sent Queen Victoria into a mourning that lasted years. He was buried temporarily in St. George's Chapel and then in 1871 at the family mausoleum at Frogmore near Windsor Castle. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Chronicle, The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1861 (London: F. & J. Rivington, 1862), p. 245-250.
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