Prince Albert survives his illness

As everyone knows :) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha succumbed to an illness in the 1860's, leaving Queen Victoria as a widow; suppose he hadn't died? How would he have influenced the direction of Anglo-German diplomacy and/or military policy, and/or the chances of Anglo/French detente if he had lived until the 1890's or at least as long as Queen Vic. did?
 
I think Victoria's image would be different. I think it is less likely that puritanical views on sex and pleasure would be labeled 'Victorian'.

By the 1860s the Monarchy's direct influence was smaller. I think Disraeli would be less of her favorite than in OTL.
 
She wouldn't have entered a period of mourning and withdrawn from public life, and so the rise of republicanism in the mid period of her reign may have been butterflied away

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
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