Given that her birth coincided with the revolutions sweeping across Europe in 1848, Queen Victoria is said to have remarked that her newest daughter Louise "was born in the most eventful times & ought to be something peculiar in consequence," which she was: an able sculptor and artist (she designed the statue of her mother that stands at Kensington Palace), a supporter of the feminist movement, and viceregal consort of the Governor General of Canada.
Duke Wellington won his final victory against Napoleon in Waterloo, Belgium on June 18, 1815. That is why Albert and the Duke had a light chuckle when they were discussing the troop deployment near the Waterloo Bridge (Albert said that he hoped it was "a good omen").