Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861) married Queen Victoria in 1840. He was involved with the establishment of the Royal College of Chemistry in 1845, with the employment of A W Hofmann and with the career of Lyon Playfair. Though remaining in many ways German in attitude, Prince Albert had a major effect on British cultural life, his influence spreading much further afield through his nurturing of the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was he who was responsible for developing the concept of creating a cultural quarter in London, which has become known as Albertopolis. By the time of his early death, the South Kensington Museum had been established, the progenitor of today’s Science Museum. It could be argued that he was the last significant intellectual to marry into the British monarchy.

German prince and the encouragement of trade, culture, and chemistry in Victorian Britain

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