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** 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.
 
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