On a Day Like Today ~ December 18, 1862.
On a Day Like Today ~ December 18, 1862. HRH Prince Albert, The Prince Consort to HM Queen Victoria, was re-interred. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, as he was known at the time of his birth, was born in late August 1819 at Schloss Rosenau, Coburg in Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, German Confederation as the 2nd child and 2nd son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. He was baptized into the Lutheran Evangelical Church in September 1819 in the Marble Hall at Schloss Rosenau with water taken from the local river, the Itz. In his youth he was very close to his brother as they were scarred by their parents' turbulent marriage and eventual separation and divorce. After their mother was exiled from court in 1824, she married her lover and she likely never saw her children again before dying of cancer at the age of 30 in 1831. The following year, their father remarried. Albert was educated privately by Christoph...