Prince Albert - Aberdeen, Scotland
N 57° 08.841 W 002° 06.300
30V E 554153 N 6334143
This life-size statue of Prince Albert is located on Union Terrace in the garden area opposite His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Waymark Code: WMMCYT
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/02/2014
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ABOUT THE STATUE:
"Unveiled by Queen Victoria on 13th October 1863, two years after Prince Albert’s death. The grieving Victoria, still distraught at the death of the prince, described the unveiling thus: “I was terribly nervous. Longed not to have to go through this fearful ordeal . . . too painful, too dreadful”. The seated bronze by Baron Carlo Marochetti RA (1805-1867) was originally sited on Union Street until 1914. Born in Turin, Marochetti settled in Paris in 1827 and was awarded The Legion of Honour in 1839. To escape the Revolution of 1848 he came to England and was elected a royal academician in 1866. Prince Albert wears the uniform of a Field Marshal and the robe of the insignia of The Order of the Thistle, the highest Honour of Scotland. The badge motto is “Nemo me impune lacessit”; “No one harms me with impunity”."
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ABOUT THE MAN:
"Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; later The Prince Consort; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
He was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. At the age of 20 he married his first cousin, Queen Victoria, with whom he would ultimately have nine children. At first, Albert felt constrained by his position as consort, which did not confer any power or duties upon him. Over time he adopted many public causes, such as educational reform and a worldwide abolition of slavery, and took on the responsibilities of running the Queen's household, estates and office. He was heavily involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Albert aided in the development of Britain's constitutional monarchy by persuading his wife to show less partisanship in her dealings with Parliament—although he actively disagreed with the interventionist foreign policy pursued during Lord Palmerston's tenure as Foreign Secretary.
He died at the early age of 42, plunging the Queen into a deep mourning that lasted for the rest of her life. Upon Queen Victoria's death in 1901, their eldest son, Edward VII, succeeded as the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, named after the ducal house to which Albert belonged."
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