Prince Albert Quotes

“Hence there arose such absurdities as the, for a while, widely believed rumour that Aberdeen and Albert had been imprisoned in the Tower of London for High Treason. (A crowd gathered, two months before the actual outbreak of war, hopeful of seeing Aberdeen and the Prince led off to the Bloody Tower in chains.)”
― A.N. Wilson, Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

“I was certain that the Alps would make a deep impression on you. No one can behold them without being struck by the Majesty of God’s Creation and the insignificance of Man! One feels oneself almost morally improved by the contemplation of such grandeur and beauty. The ‘Met glace’ is a wonderful sight, & I well remember the pleasure which the tour to the Jardin gave me exactly 20 years ago… I thought of anything rather at that moment (just of Vicky’s age) than that my son should be there 20 years later, on the same spot, & coming from England.15 It was a glorious tour, all too short.”
― A.N. Wilson, Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

“It simply was not done for the wives of nobility or royalty to raise objections to the behaviour of their males, behaviour which might have been scandalous for a member of the middle classes, but for a prince was considered perfectly normal.”
― A.N. Wilson, Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

“Moreover, she urged her uncle Edward, Duke of Kent, to visit Victoire in Amorbach, and it is obvious from the letters that he went there in 1816, a whole year before Charlotte died, with a view to marriage.”
― A.N. Wilson, Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy