No one did more than Queen Victoria's husband to usher in the age of science, engineering and technology Nick Smith talks to author Jules Stewart to find out why Prince Albert was so influential. "ALBERT ARRIVED in Britain at the dawn of the industrial age," says Jules Stewart, author of new biography called simply 'Albert'. "He was horrified by the social conditions and the squalour in which the common people were living." As a result, the Queen's Consort dedicated his short, intense career to lifting these people out of their poverty and destitution.
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