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Happy New Year Everyone!!
Plan is to celebrate it right here with someone who prefers for me to not wear anything at all.
Whatever you do for New Years Eve know that Vaughan and I wish you a most wonderful 2022!!
December 14, 1861 – Death of Albert Prince Consort, the German born husband of Britain’s Queen Victoria. He had introduced many of Germany’s Christmas traditions to the country, and popularised the German Christmas tree tradition among the British.
An intelligent educated man with an active interest in science, trade, industry and the arts, he had not had an easy time in Britain, but his positive influence on the Queen included a greater concern for social welfare, with the child labor common in the country at the time as just one example.
In the autumn of 1861, only months before he died, his intervention in a diplomatic row between Britain and the United States probably helped to prevent a war between the two countries.
It was his idea that profits from 1851’s Great Exhibition, which he helped organize to celebrate advances of the British industrial age and the empire’s expansion, were to be used towards establishing London’s South Kensington museum complex.
They are now the Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum and Science Museum.
Queen Victoria never recovered from his death and wore mourning black for the rest of her life. Prince Albert was accepted with more than a little grudging consent only after many years by the British public, however Victoria had relied heavily on him for support and advice, and he had been King in all but name for most of her reign until his death.
Albert Prince Consort, born in Bavaria as Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on August 26, 1819 – died December 14, 1861 at Windsor Castle at the age of 42.
Illustration of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria with their family and a Christmas tree, at Windsor Castle. First published in The Illustrated London News 1848.Parental tip of the day…
Weihnachten 1961
December 1961: The Berlin Wall had been standing for four months, and for the first time many families would be separated at Christmas.
A divided city. Then came the ‘Light on the Wall’ campaign, a sign of the solidarity between West Berlin and the people in the GDR. In West Berlin illuminated Christmas trees along the Berlin Wall were to shine through December, to show East Berliners they had not been forgotten.
And, on the afternoon of 17 December 1961, West Berliners lit candles on more than a thousand Christmas trees along the inner-city wall.
An appeal for donations had been sent out and Christmas tree decorations had even arrived from Japan, while trees sent from Franconia, and transported along a transit route to West Berlin that passed through the DDR, were allowed by the East German government.
Foto: Polizeihistorische Sammlung des Polizeipräsidenten in Berlin