Prins albert

Name: The Principality of Monaco Reigning Monarch: His Serene Highness Prince Albert II Reigning Family: House of Grimaldi Status: The Grimaldi family have ruled Monaco for 700 years, since 1297. In 1612 the ruler of Monaco officially became a prince during the reign of Honore II when Monaco also began its long history as a protectorate of France. Monaco was an absolute monarchy until 1911 when Prince Albert I enacted the first constitution. However, only a few years later the constitution…

Photography, and Queen Victoria's interest in it, emerged into public light with the Great Exhibition of 1851, partly Prince Albert’s brainchild. Many of the astonishing six million people who visited the exhibition in Hyde Park saw photographs for the first time, a number of which can be seen at a new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum and in the handsome accompanying book by Anne M. Lyden, both called “A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography.”

Young Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Portrait of Prince Albert (1819-61) - Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Princess Charlene and Prince Albert of Monaco

Charlene

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with their nine children

Prince Albert, c.1861 by J.J.E. Mayall This photograph is included in a Royal Collection book and touring exhibition Roger Fenton • Julia Margaret Cameron: Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection at the Aberdeen Art Gallery, 12 June - 21 August 2010 and Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere, 31 January - 25 April 2011. The Royal Collection © 2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II