A second Prince Albert – here we honour the devoted family man who brought the Christmas tree to Britain and built the family monarchy
This Prince Albert – a second of the name in our survey, and a genuinely distinct pub – holds ten hundred and thirty-two reviews and a strong 4.6, an excellent score on a large sample. Having honoured the visionary reformer and the Great Exhibition at the first Prince Albert, we turn here to another and equally beloved side of the great consort: the devoted family man who gave us so many of our Christmas traditions.
A second, and excellent, Prince Albert
This is the second pub named “The Prince Albert” in our survey – a genuinely separate and distinct pub, and an excellent one: a 4.6 across some thousand reviews is an outstanding score on a large sample. Such is the esteem in which the great Prince Albert was held that more than one fine pub bears his name. Having celebrated his visionary reforms and the great triumph of the Great Exhibition at the first, we turn here, for variety, to the warm and beloved figure of Albert the devoted family man – the loving husband and father who did so much to shape our very idea of Christmas and family life.
The Christmas tree
Prince Albert holds a genuinely beloved place in the British Christmas – for he did more than anyone to popularise the Christmas tree in Britain. The custom of the decorated Christmas tree came from Albert’s native Germany, where it was a cherished tradition – and though the tree was not entirely unknown in Britain before, it was Albert who made it beloved and popular. In 1848, a famous illustration was published showing Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children gathered happily around a beautifully decorated Christmas tree at Windsor – and this charming image of royal family happiness captured the public imagination and made the Christmas tree hugely fashionable and popular across Britain. It became, and remains, one of the most beloved of all British Christmas traditions – the beautiful decorated tree at the heart of the family Christmas – and we owe its popularity, in large part, to the beloved Prince Albert. There is genuine warmth and joy in it – the beautiful Christmas tree, the beloved tradition, the happy family gathered round.
The devoted family man
Behind the Christmas tree stands the whole beloved image of Albert the devoted family man – for he and Victoria did much to create the very idea of the happy royal family, and to set the model of warm family life for the age. Albert and Victoria were devoted parents to their nine children, and they cultivated a warm and loving family life – most famously at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, the beloved family home that Albert himself helped design, where the royal family could enjoy a happy, private, informal family life by the sea. This image of warm, happy, devoted family life – the loving parents, the happy children, the beautiful family home, the joyful family Christmas – became a beloved model for the whole age, and did much to shape the Victorian (and modern) ideal of warm family life. There is genuine warmth and appeal in it – the devoted father, the loving family man, the beloved family home, the warm family Christmas. It is a genuinely warm and beloved legacy – Albert the devoted family man, who helped give us our very idea of the happy family Christmas.
There is genuine warmth and joy in the name at this second Prince Albert – the devoted family man, the beloved Christmas tree, the warm family life, the whole joyful legacy of the family Christmas. It is a warm and beloved side of the great consort. Its excellent score across a large sample marks it as a genuinely superb and much-loved pub. The Prat’s history desk salutes the devoted family man who gave us the Christmas tree, admires the warm family legacy, and raises a most appreciative and festive glass to this excellent second Prince Albert.
The pub
A strong, much-loved pub doing an excellent 4.6 across a large sample – a second Prince Albert, here honouring the devoted family man who popularised the Christmas tree and shaped the family Christmas.
Verdict
Strong, much-loved, and warmly festive – this second Prince Albert honours the devoted family man who gave Britain its beloved Christmas tree.
Have a pint at this excellent second Prince Albert in Twickenham, and raise it to the warm name – the devoted family man who brought us the Christmas tree and helped shape the whole beloved idea of the happy family Christmas.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
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