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In 1857, Queen Victoria posed for the first royal photo ever, and the world promptly fell in love with photographing royals. Here are some of the more memorable, yet less widely seen, photos of the royal family throughout the years.

This month, to mark the 200th anniversary of Prince Albert's birth, more than 17,500 photographs, prints, and official papers relating to Queen Elizabeth's consort are being made available to the public online by the Royal Collection Trust.

Historian Lucy Worsley told 1,700 people at the Hay Festival that while Queen Victoria was pregnant with her nine children he was effectively 'king in all but name'.

Here are five unknown facts about Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria.

Five things to know about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's 'full-on passionate marriage,' including their unique door locks and nine children.

The young Queen Victoria was nervous before her 1840 wedding to Albert, but what she described later was quite at odds with her era’s killjoy puritanism.

Although some experts still disagree about the cause of Prince Albert’s untimely demise, the most likely culprit seems to be the bacterium Salmonella typhi.

Photograph of a three-quarter length portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) seated, facing three-quarters to the right, her face captured in right side profile. She rests a photographic portrait of Prince Albert (1819-61) on her lap. There are flowers positioned beside her. Photograph taken at Buckingham Palace.

Photograph of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-1861) reading books. The Queen is seated with a book on her lap and she is looking up at Prince Albert who stands reading a book.

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