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Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, died 150 years ago on 14 December 1861. We look at images of the man and his legacy.

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The glorious golden statue of Prince Albert in the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens
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Another view of the statue in the memorial, built 1863-72 after a design by George Gilbert Scott
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A 1844 copy by Alexander de Melville after a painting by Winterhalter showing a young Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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A photograph by Mayall of London of Albert in the last year of his life, 1861
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A coloured woodcut of Albert, aged thirty, 1849
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John Lucas, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Princess Royal and Eos, 1843
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A Winterhalter painting of Victoria and Albert as guests of Louis Philippe of France at the Château d'Eau in 1845
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A Roger Fenton photograph of Victoria and Albert, 1854
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A picture postcard of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, shortly after its opening in 1909
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An engraving of Albert published in London, 1844
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A John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, 1851, of Albert at Crystal Palace
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The Illustrated London News from 14 December 1861: the black border denotes the nation's mourning at the death of Albert
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An aquatint of Victoria and Albert with six of their children, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) in the rowing boat)
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A coloured lithograph of the couple both wearing the Order of the Garter
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Two exteriors of the Royal Albert Hall, opened by Queen Victoria in 1871: a view of the building and the statue of Albert...
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... and a night view of the Grade I listed building
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The Albert Memorial Chapel in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, where Albert's son Leopold and grandson Albert Victor are also buried
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