Inside her bedchamber in Osborne House, her favourite residence, on the 22nd January 1901 at the age of 81, Queen Victoria was gravely ill. She was a Queen who had been on the throne for a huge amount of time, and the impending death of Victoria was a big problem for the nation that she had reigned over. It was such a long time since a monarch had died that the precedent and ettiequte of a state funeral had also died out, and not one person in the country had any experience in dealing with this sort of event. But inside of her bedroom, the Queen who had ruled for 63 years was slipping away surrounded by her family. She was a woman who was not very well, and she was also a Queen who had suffered with depression and great grief and upset for years following the death of her husband Prince Albert. But what happened in Queen Victoria’s final moments?
Queen Victoria was never the same following the death of her husband, Prince Albert. She would throughout the rest of her life following his early death at the age of 42 wear black and would be in a deep state of mourning. Victoria would have dreamed that her husband would have been with her for many years, and that the pair would have enjoyed her long lengthy reign together. But inside Windsor Castle whilst he lay on his death bed, Prince Albert was suffering, and he had throughout his life suffered with many different illnesses, but he continually got worse, to the point where he lost the will to live, and he became greatly depressed by his constant issues regarding his health. There have been many causes of Albert’s death debated by historians, but he was a man who was ill in the last two years of his life. But what is the real story behind the horrific death of Queen Victoria’s beloved husband?