Hello. On this day, February 10, 1840, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...
The above depiction of the wedding was finished 2 years after the wedding and was done from sketches made at the wedding...too bad they just missed the introduction of photographs which came just a few years later...
The Queen, with a diminutive stature of just under 5 feet tall
must had looked pretty spectacular in the first white wedding dress...
I took this at a exhibition of Queen Victoria's wardrobe done at Kensington Palace a few years ago...
This is the famous wedding portrait commission by Queen Victoria from artist Feanz Victor Winterhalter as a wedding gift for Prince Albert, from sketches made at the wedding
Prince Albert gave Victoria this gorgeous Sapphire and Diamond brooch which you can see in the wedding portraits... gorgeous!
The marriage was extremely happy, and after his death at age 42, Queen Victoria wore mourning until her death in 1901.
Queen Victoria continued to wear on formal occasions her wedding veil, which was buried with her along with a marble replica of Albert's hand that was always beside her bed.....
