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Queen Victoria
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
— December 1899 letter to Arthur Balfour during the "Black Week" of the Boer War, as quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993),
Queen Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
- Fame82.9
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- Fame82.9
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- Global rank#102
- United Kingdom rank#70
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Lived 1819–1901, aged 82United Kingdom
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She reigned longer than any British monarch before her — 63 years that remade an empire, gave an entire era its name, and turned a teenage queen into the face of an age.
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Victoria inherited the throne at 18 in 1837 after her father and his three elder brothers all died without legitimate heirs, raised under tight supervision by her mother and comptroller John Conroy. She married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840; their nine children married across Europe's royal houses, earning her the nickname 'grandmother of Europe.' After Albert's death in 1861 she withdrew into deep mourning and avoided the public for years, briefly strengthening republican sentiment, but her popularity surged again in the latter half of her reign. In 1876 Parl…
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Queen Victoria
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I am too horrified for words at this monstrous horrible sentence against this poor martyr Dreyfus. If only all Europe would express its horror and indignation!
— Letter to Lord Salisbury on the Dreyfus affair (9 September 1899), quoted in The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's
Queen Victoria
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I sympathise most deeply with your expressions on the horrors of war, than which no one can feel more strongly than I do; and earnestly hope that it may be averted.
— Letter to the Queen of the Netherlands shortly before the Second Boer War (September 1899), quoted in The Letters of Queen Victoria: A
Queen Victoria
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It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.
— After being shot at by Roderick Maclean on 2 March 1882, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen (1987), p. 450.
Queen Victoria
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All marriage is such a lottery -- the happiness is always an exchange -- though it may be a very happy one -- still the poor woman is bodily and morally the husband's slave.
— Letter (16 May 1860), published in Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal Previously Unpublished edited by
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