Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf
Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf, was by marriage the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was the grandmother and godmother of both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her husband and cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf as Artemisia, 1775
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840, until his death in 1861. He received the unique title of Prince Consort in 1857 from his wife.
Photograph by J. J. E. Mayall, May 1860
Albert (left) with his elder brother, Ernest, and mother, Louise, shortly before her exile from court
Portrait by John Partridge, 1840
Armorial bookplate of Prince Albert