Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
Victoriawas Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she had the additional title of Empress of India...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth24 May 1819
CityLondon, England
nerves events calm
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
irritation feelings littles
Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .
good-woman reign royalty
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
queens speaking-up bishops
[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
queens thinking russia
The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.
queens animal practice
The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity...
peace may
Oh, that peace may come.
culinary
Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.
grows
Everybody grows but me.