Albert's marriage to Victoria in 1840 mixes love and politics, and joins the ranks of the great love stories of monarchs. It seems that Victoria liked him very much, which is quite possible:Albert was certainly not a passionate man (he was very puritanical, shy and melancholy), but he was fair, sensitive and of a gentle temperament.
For a time, having no other role or title than that of prince consort, Albert was the laughingstock of British society. However, inspired by his adviser, Baron Stockmar (born, like him, in the principality of Cobourg), he greatly influenced British politics. Certainly, his thoroughness and shrewdness in meddling in government business earned him a bad reputation among British political leaders. But he would gradually instruct Victoria in matters specific to constitutional monarchies, which provide that the sovereign should not belong to any party, but to the whole people.
Before his premature death, at just over 40 years old, in 1861, Albert experienced his hour of glory in 1851, with the great Universal Exhibition in London, of which he was the main instigator. Victoria, who was widowed, will mourn him for many years.