Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

German prince

Moustache type: Nailbrush

Born: 26 8 1819 (Schloss Rosenau, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld)
Died: 14 12 1861 (Windsor, England, aged 42, typhoid)

“Excessively handsome” was one compliment paid to Albert by his English cousin, Princess Victoria who, after she became queen, he married in 1840.

Albert became Victoria’s closest adviser and closest friend. When he died, the Queen was infamously distraught. She wore black for the rest of her life and erected The Albert Memorial and The Royal Albert Hall in his honour. Prince Albert wasn’t held in the same esteem by his wife’s subjects; he was disliked despite his instrumental involvement with the hugely successful and popular Great Exhibition of 1851.

Though it is named after him the “Prince Albert” piercing did not adorn the royal pecker. It is believed that Richard Simonton, an active participant in gay, sado-masochistic, 1970s subculture, invented the Prince Albert story to give genital-piercing a respectable heritage.

For the moustache-connoisseur a “Prince Albert” is of course a small, neat, light brown, rounded nailbrush moustache with a small central gap.