Which German prince did Queen Victoria marry in 1840?

Queen Victoria married her German cousin Prince Albert in 1840.

Victoria and Albert first met in 1836, when Albert visited Britain with his brother Ernest. Victoria became queen in 1837, and because a reigning monarch traditionally had to choose a husband rather than be proposed to, she proposed to Albert in 1839.

They married on February 10, 1840, at St James’s Palace in London. Albert was born in the duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, which later became Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He became Prince Consort in 1857, but he was never a king.

The couple had nine children, many of whom married into European royal families. Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861, aged 42. Victoria remained in mourning for the rest of her life and survived him by nearly four decades.