May I succeed in making you quite quite happy, as happy as you deserve to be!! With body and soul I remain for ever your slave Your devoted Albert on 15 Oct. 1839 Dearest Victoria. I will come to you ...

Prince Albert, also German, sent trees to schools and army forts around the holiday season, but the tree trend took off with the help of an 1848 etching which made their tradition public knowledge.

Queen Victoria married Prince Albert from Germany. The queen's reign is known as the Victorian age. Nearly 200 years ago, Britain had a queen called Victoria. She was tiny – less than a metre ...