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Five things to know about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's 'full-on passionate marriage,' including their unique door locks and nine children.

Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria of Britain, was a German prince who came to wield great influence on British society.

This month, to mark the 200th anniversary of Prince Albert's birth, more than 17,500 photographs, prints, and official papers relating to Queen Elizabeth's consort are being made available to the public online by the Royal Collection Trust.

Here are five unknown facts about Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria.

Although some experts still disagree about the cause of Prince Albert’s untimely demise, the most likely culprit seems to be the bacterium Salmonella typhi.

The young Queen Victoria was nervous before her 1840 wedding to Albert, but what she described later was quite at odds with her era’s killjoy puritanism.

A new exhibition at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles explores the story of Queen Victoria as surprisingly and deeply intertwined with the birth of photography as a medium.

Queen Victoria married her husband of 21 years, Prince Albert, on 10 February 1840 in St James’s Palace chapel, in what was the first marriage of a reigning queen of England since Mary I in 1554. To the outside world, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were the golden couple, exemplars of traditional family values. Yet, as Jane Ridley reveals, behind the romanticised veneer, Albert's thirst for power was putting the marriage under intense pressure…

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