The magnificent and definitive biography of Prince Albert, by one of Britain's best biographers and the author of Victoria: A Life.

From the author of "Victoria: A Life", this biography of Prince Albert gives this important historical figure the reverence and recognition he deserves. 'Wilson's approach is admiring, argumentative and astute.' Richard Davenport-Hines, "The Times"

For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trusted husband and father of their nine children, Prince Albert. But while Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, it was Prince Albert, A. N. Wilson expertly argues, who was at the vanguard of Victorian Britain's transformation as a vibrant and extraordinary centre of political, technological, scientific and intellectual advancement. Far more than just the product of his age, Albert was one of its influencers and architects. A composer, engineer, soldier, politician, linguist and bibliophile, Prince Albert, more than any other royal, was truly a 'genius'.