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'''Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha''' (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; later the Prince Consort; 26 august 1819 - 14 december 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria.<br />
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== Conan Doyle and Prince Albert ==<br />
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* In the article [[Conan Doyle in America (article 1907)|Conan Doyle in America]] (1907), the journalist wrote that [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] was himself an exceedingly warm-blooded person, wearing no overcoat even in the coldest weather, and preferred to lecture in a frock-coat so that he might dispense with his waistcoat, the absence of which he concealed by buttoning up his "Prince Albert." <br />
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* [[The Crime of the Congo]] (1909) : [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] quoted Prince Albert when he returned from the Congo one year after the annexation by Belgium.<br />
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== In the Sherlock Holmes stories ==<br />
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Prince Albert is mentioned 3 times in the Sherlock Holmes stories as the ''Albert chain'', which was a pocket watch chain. Prince Albert started the trend of wearing pocket watches when he and Victoria got some of the first "keyless" pocket watches - beginning the pocket watch trend.<br />
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* [[Enoch J. Drebber]] wore a gold Albert chain ([[STUD]] {{refcanon|STUD|570}}).<br />
* [[Jabez Wilson]] wore a heavy brassy Albert chain ([[REDH]] {{refcanon|REDH|29}}).<br />
* [[James Windibank|Hosmer Angel]] wore a gold Albert chain ([[IDEN]] {{refcanon|IDEN|249}}).<br />
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