1861 Albert Prince Concert, WINDSOR CASTLE re Mary's Marriage to Col H Ponsonby

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1861 Albert Prince Concert, WINDSOR CASTLE re Mary's Marriage to Col H Ponsonby
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1861 Albert Prince Concert, WINDSOR CASTLE letter or note regarding Mary Bulteels Marriage to his equerry Col Henry Ponsonby. He does not say who is writing to but it could be a note to his Wife Queen Victoria as it is unsigned, as Mary had been Her Maid of Honour, undated but after April 30th 1861,
Albert Died same year on the 14th December.
"With what pleasure I received the news of Mary Bulteels marriage ( April 30th 1861) I need hardly say- you know how fond of her I always was & how I admired her cleverness and her other numerous talents, she is a rarely gifted person and I should think would make a charming wife- Col: Ponsonby is so very agreeable & good natured -"
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel;[1] 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861.
Albert was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. At the age of twenty, he married his cousin Victoria; they had nine children. Initially he felt constrained by his role as consort, which did not afford him power or responsibilities. He gradually developed a reputation for supporting public causes, such as educational reform and the abolition of slavery worldwide, and was entrusted with running the Queen's household, office, and estates. He was heavily involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851, which was a resounding success.
Victoria came to depend more and more on Albert's support and guidance. He aided the development of Britain's constitutional monarchy by persuading his wife to be less partisan in her dealings with Parliament—although he actively disagreed with the interventionist foreign policy pursued during Lord Palmerston's tenure as Foreign Secretary.
Albert died at the relatively young age of 42. Victoria was so devastated at the loss of her husband that she entered into a deep state of mourning and wore black for the rest of her life. On her death in 1901, their eldest son succeeded as Edward VII, the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, named after the ducal house to which Albert belonged.
Major-General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby GCB PC (10 December 1825 – 21 November 1895), was a British soldier and royal court official who served as Queen Victoria's Private Secretary
Born in Corfu, he was the son of Major-General Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, an Anglo-Irish nobleman who was a senior commander in the British Army.
He entered the army on 27 December 1842 as an ensign in the 49th Regiment of Foot. Transferred to the Grenadier Guards, he became a lieutenant on 16 February 1844, captain on 18 July 1848, and major on 19 October 1849. From 1847 to 1858 he was aide-de-camp to Lord Clarendon and Lord St. Germans, successively lord-lieutenants of Ireland. He served through the Crimean campaigns of 1855–56, becoming lieutenant-colonel on 31 Aug. 1855; for the action before Sebastopol he received a medal with clasp, the Turkish medal, and the Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class.
After the peace he was appointed equerry to Albert, Prince Consort, who greatly valued his services. On 2 August 1860 he became colonel, and in 1862, after the death of the prince, he was sent to Canada in command of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards which was stationed in the colony during the American Civil War. On 6 March 1868 he became a major-general.
Ponsonby embellished letters to his children at Eton with a series of illustrations in which he concealed the school's address. It was a family quirk continued by his son, Arthur Ponsonby, and recently revived by descendant Harriet Russell. His letters bore addresses appearing as doodled signposts in snowstorms or as huge envelopes shouldered by tiny people.
He served as Keeper of the Privy Purse and Private Secretary to Queen Victoria. His appointment occurred on 8 April 1870, after the death of prior Private Secretary General Sir Charles Grey, who was "a son of Earl Grey, the Prime Minister" at the time and who was wife Mary Ponsonby's "Uncle Charles." Both Arthur and Mary Ponsonby contributed pseudonymously to magazines and newspapers of the day.
On 6 January 1895 he was attacked by paralysis; in May he retired from his offices, and on 21 November he died at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. He was buried at Whippingham.
On 30 April 1861, he married Hon. Mary Elizabeth Bulteel, Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria and a daughter of John Crocker Bulteel (1793–1843) MP. The couple had five children:
Alberta Victoria Ponsonby (6 May 1862 – 15 October 1945)
Magdalen Ponsonby (24 June 1864 – 1 July 1934)
John Ponsonby (25 March 1866 – 26 March 1952)
Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby (16 September 1867 – 20 October 1935)
Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby (16 February 1871 – 24 March 1946)
Lady Caroline Lamb (née Ponsonby), his father's sister, had been married to Lord Melbourne, a crucial advisor to Queen Victoria during her first years on the throne
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1861 Albert Prince Concert, WINDSOR CASTLE letter or note regarding Mary Bulteels Marriage to his equerry Col Henry Ponsonby. He does not say who is writing to but it could be a note to his Wife Queen Victoria as it is unsigned, as Mary had been Her Maid of Honour, undated but after April 30th 1861, Albert Died same year on the 14th December. "With what pleasure I received the news of Mary Bulteels marriage ( April 30th 1861) I need hardly say- you know how fond of her I always was & how I admired her cleverness and her other numerous talents, she is a rarely gifted person and I should think would make a charming wife- Col: Ponsonby is so very agreeable & good natured -" Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel;[1] 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861)
EAN
Does Not apply
Country
England
Royal Residence
Windsor Castle
Royal/ Reign
Victoria (1837-1901)
Royal
Prince Albert
England County
Berkshire
To Commemorate
Wedding
Family Surname
Bulteel & Ponsonby
Royalty
UK Royalty
Related Interests 2
Sir Henry Ponsonby
Addressed to
Queen Victoria?
Year
1861
Document Type
Original Manuscript Letter