In 1851, Victoria and Albert invited their close allies Prince William of Prussia and his wife Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach to visit the Great Exhibition.

On May 1 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition. By the time it closed on October 15 it had attracted more than six million people, nearly a third of the population.

THE Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 have published records of their scholarship schemes and the ... has paid tribute to the foresight of the chief promoter of the Exhibition—Prince Albert.

Prince ALBERT was a man of refined taste, and an accomplished musician and draughtsman. ... He was the chief promoter, if not the originator, of the great World's Exhibition of 1851; ...

It was one of Britain's greatest ever structures, constructed in London's Hyde Park in just 190 days between 1850 and 1851 - in time for Prince Albert's Great Exhibition.