Partly, they were inspired by the mourning of Queen Victoria, who grieved over her husband for forty years. Victorian ...

Women tried to replicate Victoria's fashions while some men copied Albert's hairstyle and moustache. Prince Albert died at the age of 42. The Queen was inconsolable with grief and wore mourning ...

After a visit with their son, future King Edward VII, Queen Victoria’s beloved Prince Albert became sick and died in 1861.