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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:GrandeDame.jpg\|frame\|"You'll take no liberties with ''ME'', my good man."\| "Indeed, madame, that is the ''LAST'' thing I should desire!"]] {{quote\|''[[Royal We\|We]] are not amused.''\|[[Beam Me Up, Scotty\|Attributed to]] '''[[Queen Victoria]]'''}} Line 140: '''Winston Churchill:''' Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly. }} ** This exchange was confirmed to Richard Langworth by Ronald Golding, a bodyguard present on the occasion as Churchill was leaving the House of Commons in 1946. (Note that in the 1934 movie ''It's a Gift'', W.C. Fields' character, when told he is drunk, responds, "Yeah, and you're crazy. But I'll be sober tomorrow and you'll be crazy the rest of your life.") * The actresses [http://im.in.com/connect/images/profile/oct2009/Florence_Bates_300.jpg Florence Bates]{{Dead link}}, [~~http~~https://web.archive.org/web/20150808110245/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f5/Symona.jpg/200px-Symona.jpg Symona Boniface], [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Constance_Collier_in_Rope_trailer.jpg Constance Collier], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110930221722/http://www.cyranos.ch/spcoope.jpg Gladys Cooper], [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rs53-MPsJaI/SYaDVKEx3cI/AAAAAAAALa8/ym6z6ubrNOw/s400/dinner-at-8-marie-dressler.jpg Marie Dressler], [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_madyzqmHA2o/SPStIQ2NAyI/AAAAAAAAB2E/gW4Q4ZhcxQo/s400/Margaret+Dumont.jpg Margaret Dumont], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMbIu8lRlWw Edith Evans], [http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3252/2893514748_20e51238b3.jpg?v=0 Hermione Gingold], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131013113718/http://www.myprideandprejudice.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Lady-Catherine-de-Bourgh-played-by-Edna-May-Oliver-in-Pride-and-Prejudice-1940.jpg Edna May Oliver], and [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Helen_Westley_in_Roberta_(1935)_trailer.jpg Helen Westley] specialized in this sort of rôle, but in most cases the actresses themselves were noted for having a keen sense of humor. It was claimed by Groucho Marx throughout most of their lives that Margaret Dumont never understood what was supposed to be funny about the [[Marx Brothers]]' comedy; however, Dumont was a long-time veteran of the comedy stage herself, and well understood that the more unamused she herself seemed, the funnier the jokes would be for the audience. Margaret had married a millionaire, and was this in real life. She commuted to the studio by air from her mansions in Palm Springs and Paris (back when air travel was for the very rich only. * [[Wholesome Crossdresser\|Dame Edna Everage]] * [[~~Queen Vicky\|~~Queen Victoria]] is generally portrayed this way. The page quote is said (on rather slim evidence) to have been provoked by the Hon. Alexander Grantham ("Alick") Yorke, one of her grooms-in-waiting, who had a reputation as a funny man among the Queen's retainers, and, when commanded by Her Majesty to demonstrate, either told a risqué anecdote or performed an imitation of Victoria herself. Queens [[The Virgin Queen\|Elizabeth I]] and [[Elizabeth II]], and other queens such as [[Catherine the Great]], are also occasionally depicted in this manner, with rather less justification. According to someone who was there, it was a risqué-bordering-on-crude anecdote told in a roomful of prepubescent girls. Victoria had good cause not to be amused. Incidentally, there are more photographs of Queen Victoria laughing than there are of all nine of her children laughing ''combined''. She could however be a Grande Dame when necessary; her genius was knowing when that was. {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Grande Dame~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Characters As Device]] [[Category:Trope Names From the French]] Line 155 ⟶ 156: [[Category:Always Female]] [[Category:An Index of Ladies and Gentlemen]] ▲[[Category:Grande Dame]]