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Author’s NotePrince Albert remained a Coburger all his life. Nothing about him was English except his papers of naturalisation. He looked German and spoke German to the Queen. Yet in 1842 he felt convinced that he was accepted in England.
At the same time he never missed an opportunity to bring into the country ‘his own people’ and he started with Baron Stockmar to help reorganise the Royal Household.
Both the Prince and the Queen were obsessed with the idea that marriage was a cure for all evils. When Prince Albert’s brother Ernest became involved in a reprehensible love affair, the Prince advised him to marry a virtuous wife and ‘to purify himself in the eyes of the world’.
Ernest took the advice and married Alexandrina of Baden.
“Ernest’s marriage,” the Queen wrote, “is a great, great delight to us, thank God! I say, as I so ardently wished it.”
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