Page 49 - BBC History - September 2017

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Victoria and Albert’s marriage
“Albert made Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s
painting The Royal Family
in 1846 shows Victoria and
Albert with their children
(from left to right): Alfred,
Edward, Alice, Helena and
Vicky. Sadly, inter-family
Victoria feel that relations weren’t always as
blissful as this idealised
portrait suggests
she was inadequate
– his intellectual
and moral
inferior”
To the outside world, Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert were
the golden couple, exemplars
of traditional family values.
Yet, as Jane Ridley reveals,
behind the romanticised
veneer, Albert’s thirst for power
was putting the marriage under BRIDGEMAN
intense pressure

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