Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1902 — Queen Victoria’s Husband. [ARTICLE]

Queen Victoria’s Husband.

Writing of Prince Albert in an article in the Century, on “The Royal Family of England,” Professor Oscar Browning says: “From the first the Prince identified himself with the Queen In all her labork They had one mind and one soul. Rising every morning with the dawn, the Prince went into his workroom, where their two tables stood side by side, and read all their correspondence, arranging everything for the Queen’s convenience when she should arrive. He knew all her thoughts and assisted all her actions, yet so adroit and self-sacrificing was his conduct that all the merit and popularity came to her. The people had no idea that he interfered with public affairs, yet, had they reflected, they must have known that it was inevitable. Once during the Crimean war, when the notion got abroad that the Prince had intervened, there were talks of treason and of sending him to the Tower: yet on the day of the Prince’s death, on that cold, Ice-bound Saturday, Charles Kingsley said to the present writer: ‘He was King of England for twenty years, and do one knew it’"