A lasting legacy
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Prince Albert’s birth. For the 21 years of his marriage to Queen Victoria he was instrumental in bringing in a number of reforms, and arguably lay the foundations for the public’s relationship with the royal family as we know it today.
He famously worked tirelessly until his untimely death at the age of just 42 – a testament to his workaholic nature. Perhaps his crowning achievement was the Great Exhibition of 1851 which brought together more than
