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    LONDON LIFE

    Aug 03, 2022 4 minutes

    ENDURING LOVE

    The Albert Memorial, Kensington Gardens, W2

    Soon after the death of her beloved Prince Albert in December 1861, Queen Victoria initiated a competition to create both a personal monument to her husband and a ‘spacious hall’ for public meetings in the Arts and sciences in his memory. The two structures that resulted—the Royal Albert Hall (COUNTRY LIFE, March 24, 2021) and the Albert Memorial—today constitute the heart of his greatest legacy, ‘Albertopolis’, the cultural centre created in Kensington after the Great Exhibition in 1851.

    The Albert Memorial, officially titled the Prince Consort National Memorial, was designed by George Gilbert Scott and unveiled 150 years ago, in

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