... innovation, the Christmas tree, it is, like the Great Exhibition Of 1851, one of the things for which we have to thank Prince Albert, who introduced it from Germany soon after his marriage to Queen Victoria. In Albert's native country it was an ancient ...

... 000, and inherited along with it a tradition of wastefulness and extravagance in the Royal Household which her husband, Prince Albert, did much to put right. History relates how the Prince reorganized the chaotic economy of Buckingham Palace, abolishing ...