Queen victoria wedding

The 20-year-old monarch unwittingly influenced nearly two centuries’ worth of bridal decisions.

Painting of the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1840.

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This is a copy, probably by William Corden, of Winterhalter’s portrait of Princess Alice (RCIN 400807) painted in 1859. Princess Alice (1843-78) is wearing the dress in which she appeared at her first Drawing-Room (a formal reception where ladies were presented at court) on 7 May 1859. She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Known for her sweet nature, she often took on the role of peacekeeper in the royal household. The marriage of her older sister…

The young Queen Victoria was nervous before her 1840 wedding to Albert, but what she described later was quite at odds with her era’s killjoy puritanism.

Left: A New Portrait Painting Of The Queen By Artist Andrew Festing For The Royal Hospital In Chelsea Is Unveiled At The Mall Galleries In London. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images); and Right: portrait photograph of Queen Victoria dressed for the wedding of The Duke and Duchess of Albany, 1887