THE TRUST

Victoria & Albert: Art & Love

Timeline of key dates

24 May 1819 Princess born at

26 August 1819 Prince Albert born at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg

23 January 1820 Princess Victoria’s father, the Duke of Kent, dies

May 1836 Prince Albert visits England for the first time with his brother Ernest and meets Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace

20 June 1837 Princess Victoria accedes to the throne of Great Britain

December 1838 Prince Albert visits Florence, Rome, Naples, Siena, Milan and Turin as – May 1839 part of the Grand Tour

October 1839 Prince Albert visits England for the second time

15 October 1839 and Prince Albert become engaged

10 February 1840 Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace

21 November 1840 Princess Victoria born

9 November 1841 Prince Albert Edward born

12 May 1842 The Bal Costumé held at

September 1842 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert make their first visit to Scotland

25 April 1843 Princess Alice born

6 August 1844 Prince Alfred born

1845 Ludwig Gruner officially employed as The Queen’s Artistic Adviser

April 1845 Queen Victoria purchases on the

6 June 1845 The 1745 Fancy Ball held at Buckingham Palace

August 1845 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert undertake their first tour of Germany, visiting Cologne, Bonn and Coburg

April 1846 Edward Blore commissioned to undertake the construction of the East wing at Buckingham Palace

September 1846 New Osborne House completed

25 May 1846 Princess Helena born

18 March 1848 Princess Louise born

1 May 1850 Prince Arthur born

13 June 1851 The Stuart Ball held at Buckingham Palace

May – October 1851 The at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park opens 1 May

November 1851 and estate purchased by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

7 April 1853 Prince Leopold born

September 1853 Work commences on the new Balmoral Castle

May – November 1855 Exposition Universelle , Paris, opens 15 May

May 1856 Sir James Pennethorne completes the Ballroom extension to Buckingham Palace

14 April 1857 Princess Beatrice born

May – October 1857 Prince Albert opens the Manchester Art Treasures exhibition, 5 May Queen Victoria and Prince Albert lent 139 works of art to the exhibition

22 June 1857 Opening of the South Kensington Museum, later the Victoria and Albert Museum, using admission revenue from the Great Exhibition

25 January 1858 Marriage of Princess Victoria to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia

1860 Ludwig Gruner retires as Prince Albert’s artistic advisor

May 1860 onwards Prince Albert begins the reorganisation of the Print Room and Royal Library at

14 December 1861 Prince Albert dies at Windsor Castle

22 Queen Victoria dies at Osborne House