February 10 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1840
Victoria marries Albert
At the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, the 20-year-old queen marries her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She wears white satin trimmed with Honiton lace -- launching the white wedding dress tradition -- and the couple honeymoon at Windsor. It is a love match that will shape the monarchy for sixty years.