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Tour Scotland Photograph Prince Albert Statue George Square Glasgow
Tour Scotland photograph of the Prince Albert statue in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. Prince Albert, born 1819, died, 1861, married Queen Victoria in 1840 and together they purchased the Balmoral estate in 1852. 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 twenty he married his first cousin, Queen Victoria, with whom he would ultimately have nine children. Initially he felt constrained by his position as consort, which did not confer any power or duties upon him, but he soon began to lend his support to many public causes, such as educational reform and the worldwide abolition of slavery, and took on the responsibilities of running the Queen's household, estates and office. The statue was erected five years after his death.
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