This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.

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Explore specific themes, biographies, and media that further contextualises Albert’s life and times

Films

These short films from the Channel 4 documentary 'Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed' focus on key areas of Albert's activity.

Themes

A selection of visual essays on major events in Albert’s life and the culture of the Victorian era

Collection story

1851 Commission Research Fellowship: A Prince’s Papers in a Digital World

1851 Commission Research Fellowship: A Prince’s Papers in a Digital World

Collection story

Photographic Technologies

Learn more about the photographic techniques available in the mid-19th century

Collection story

Great Exhibition of 1851

Prince Albert took a leading role in the organisation of the Exhibition

Collection story

Prince Albert and Raphael

The Raphael Collection is one of Prince Albert's lasting legacies

Collection story

Memorialising Albert

Prince Albert's lasting influence can be seen in many mediums

People

Learn more about key figures in Albert’s life who were central to the development of the Collections

The Royal Family

The Royal Household

Cultural and political figures

Photographers and artists

Albert's Life and Times

Explore the timeline below to follow the life of Prince Albert. An influential patron of the arts including photography, the timeline charts the development of this medium, and the wider cultural and historical events that informed Albert's life.

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