article_snippet: The animals were used to pull carriages around the estate, which was built in the 19th century as a private home for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
article_snippet: Osborne House was the summer home of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the 19th century .
article_snippet: However, Osborne House did not profit from the arrangement.
article_snippet: The home was designed by Prince Albert to look like an Italian palazzo, and was built between 1845 and 1851.
article_snippet: The couple would spend several months a year at Osborne House, and after Prince Albert's death Victoria continued to pay regular visits, dying there in 1901.
article_snippet: Osborne House was used as an officer training college by the Royal Navy after Edward VII gave Osborne House to the nation.