1861 CE: QUEEN VICTORIA’S HUSBAND, PRINCE ALBERT

–dies suddenly of typhoid fever (at age 42)

Victoria will wear only black for the next forty years, until her death.

Prince Albert: b. August, 1819, Schlos Rosenau, Coburg, Saxe Colberg Saalfeld; d. December 1861, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England

Queen Victoria: b. May, 1819, Kensington Palace, London; d. January, 1901, Osborne House, Isle of Wright