Royal Albert Hall who had died six years earlier. It forms the practical part of a memorial to the Prince Consort – the decorative part is the Albert Memorial directly to the north in Kensington Gardens, now separated from the Hall by Kensington Gore. In 1851, the Great Exhibition (for which the Crystal Palace was built) was held in Hyde Park, London. The exhibition was a great success and led Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, to propose the creation of a permanent series of facilities for the enlightenment of the public in the area, which came to be known as Albertopolis. The Exhibition's
Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Adele album) on top of the chart, extending its record for the longest-running #1 music video by a female artist. Midway through 2012, "Live at the Royal Albert Hall" was the best-selling music DVD in the United States with sales of 464,000 in the first six months of 2012 alone and bringing its total US sales to 915,000. This is more than any music video has sold in the first half of a year since Jay-Z and Linkin Park's "Collision Course" in 2005. By late August 2012, "Live at the Royal Albert Hall" had sold 955,000 copies in the United States. As