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[[File:Queen Victoria 1854.jpg|thumb|300px|Queen Victoria in 1854...]]
[[File:VictoriaJubilee.jpg|frame|"[[Determinator|We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat]]; ''[[Determinator|they do not exist]].''"]]▼
[[File:Her Majesty Queen Victoria. 1897 (BM 1902,1011.9447).jpg|thumb|300px|... and in 1897]]
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|Queen Victoria, in a December 1899 letter to Arthur Balfour during the "Black Week" of the Boer War}}
{{quote|'''Captain Darling:''' ''I'm as British as Queen Victoria!''
'''Captain Blackadder:''' ''So your father's German, you're half-German, and you married a German?''
|''[[Blackadder|Blackadder Goes Forth]]''}}
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) reigned over [[The British Empire|the largest empire the world has ever seen]]. She was a hugely important figure, causing sweeping changes in the history of many parts of the world, and inspiring her people. She was not simply a [[Lie Back and Think of England|prudish]] [[Grande Dame|old woman with no sense of humour]], and in fact [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|probably never said, "We are not amused"]].
Her reign was equally momentous, occupying nearly the entire period of the Industrial Revolution, from 1837 to 1901
She married her cousin Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel in 1840, leading prank phone callers to ask if their victim had Prince Albert in a can. Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861, still young(ish) and handsome, leaving Victoria stricken with grief. She never remarried.
Many, many books have been written about her and her era. These tend to be set when they were written, either in [[Victorian London]] or in the colonies. Also the default timeframe for [[Steampunk]] works.
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== Her Majesty Victoria and her reign involve examples of the following tropes: ==▼
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* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: The "We are not amused" story is most likely apocryphal. In fact, she wrote constantly in her journal about how much things amused her, and in fact laughed uproariously at most of the operas of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]].
** The story may have arisen from an incident where a courtier told a filthy joke in front of a number of small children at lunch. Her "we" was meant to encompass the confused and worried girls, who either didn't understand the joke or were upset by it.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] humorously in the "Tooth and Claw" episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', where in a
** Also true about the phrase "[[Lie Back and Think of England]]." She and Albert loved each other passionately (in both senses of the word) - none of that for ''them''!
*** As the discussion for that trope's page concluded, in order to make the quote more in line with the Victoria's ''actual'' conduct, it must be reinterpreted as advice on what to do when ''not'' having any sex.
** A possible example is the claim that she detested a northern city so much that she always had the curtains closed on her train when passing through it -- the reason why this is suspicious is that it's claimed by multiple places, including Newcastle and Edinburgh.
*** Again, almost certainly apocryphal - Victoria was too soft-hearted to hold a grudge against an entire city.
* [[British Accents]]: Victoria's was supposedly very heavily German-accented, considering that she was descended mostly from Germans (her family were the royals of Hanover after all!) and preferred to speak that one when she was alone or with her equally German husband.
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* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: At first the Queen and Prince couldn't decide on the design for the Great Exhibition Building; brick or stone would be too heavy and costly, and would never get done in time, and wood would still take too long and add fire danger. A public contest was held, and the winning answer (a giant greenhouse, which was easy to assemble quickly, let in sunlight and could be built around the trees in the park) came from a lower-class gardener, who was supposedly quite dull. Later, they wondered how to get the sparrows in the trees from defecating on everyone, and his second ingenious answer got him knighted:
{{quote|''"How about sparrow hawks?"''}}
** That's kind of selling the man short; Joseph Paxton, the aforementioned
*** He also spawned the saying "Got a problem? Give it to Paxton!"
*** The relationship between the Duke of Devonshire and Joseph Paxton was much more like that between two business partners rather than nobleman and
*** Actually, the sparrowhawks line wasn't even said by Paxton, it was the Duke of Wellington who suggested the idea to the Queen.
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Not for her, but her ''first'' name was "Alexandrina", which was chosen specifically to upset her uncle (who hated the Russian [[Tsarist Russia|Tsar Alexander I]]).
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** She ''did'' hope that Victoria came to the throne before her majority, though, so that a regency could be formed, with her as the regent of course. Some say that she even tried to get a regency established ''after'' Victoria turned eighteen.
** Victoria is said to have believed this herself. She suspected her mother's aide, Sir John Conroy, of attempting to have her declared insane so that her mother could be appointed permanent regent (and him the power behind the regency).
* [[The Federation]]: [[The British Empire]] under Victoria is one of the [[Trope Codifier
** Her letters also naturally record [[Young Future Famous People]] incidents of this type, such as Victoria sending Leopold's young son Leopold junior a steam engine to play with and commenting on his
* [[The Good Chancellor]]: [[Benjamin Disraeli]].
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]; even those who [[Your Mileage May Vary|don't like the country's practices]] have to admit that she did a good job <s>ruling</s> ''reigning over'' her own country.
** Debatable as she's still known amongst some as [[The Irish Question|'The Famine Queen']].
* [[Grande Dame]]: Though she was not actually lacking humour, she is generally portrayed this way in
* [[Happily Married]] - A rare, straight example for a real-life royal couple. Victoria was so dedicated to her husband (as he was to her) that even after his death she still insisted that the linens and wash basin in his room be changed just as if he were still living in there.
* [[Hero's Muse]]: She was often portrayed this way.
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** [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: She found [[Second Love]] with [[Man in a Kilt|John Brown]].
*** Then possibly ''again'' with Abdul Karim after Brown's death.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: When the Queen was inconsolable after Prince Albert's death, her youngest daughter Princess Beatrice (then aged five) became her main source of support, and at one point while a child Beatrice declared that she would never marry and stay with her mother to support
* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]]: High-profile
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Subverted and played straight. Victoria's mother was ''also'' named Victoria. So was her eldest daughter, but was called Vicky for most of her childhood. Victoria and Albert's eldest son was also named Albert, but the British people wouldn't accept such a ''German'' name for their future monarch and was always referred to as his middle name, Edward, in the press (which was the name he eventually adopted when he ascended to the throne). Within the family, though, he was always called Bertie.
** Victoria intended for there to be a Victoria and an Albert in every generation of the senior royal family, whenever possible. The trend died out almost immediately after her death, although some royals still carry one of those names as a middle name (Prince Andrew's middle name is Albert, for instance).
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* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Once literally happened when her cousin Ferdinand accidentally shot Albert's favourite dog Eos.
* [[Sugar and Ice]]: Just read her journal entries on Albert.
* [[Trope Maker]]: Without Prince Albert, we would not have [[Christmas Tropes]], at least in English; when Victoria came to the throne, it was just a minor holiday in England. Albert introduced the concept of the Christmas tree, Christmas cards, Christmas carolling, Christmas lights and the traditional turkey{{verify}} dinner from Germany.
** Ditto for most [[Wedding and Engagement Tropes]]. The huge white dress, huger cake with figurines on top, and other frills we commonly associate with weddings were inspired by Victoria's (and at least one by her eldest daughter's).
* [[Team Mom]]: To the whole Empire.
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* [[Widow Woman]]: After the death of Prince Albert, Victoria always wore mourning clothes, though she did eventually brighten up personally.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Black Butler]]'', main character Ciel Phantomhive directly serves as her "watchdog" as part of his family's role and does what she wants to protect the country, essentially serving as England's black-ops.▼
* An unnamed Victoria, referred to only as "The Queen", appears as Princess Charlotte's beloved grandmother in the final episode of ''[[Princess Principal]]''.
== [[Film]] ==
* The film ''[[The Young Victoria]]'', which is based on, well... [[Captain Obvious|a young Victoria]].
* ''[[Mrs. Brown]]'' starring Dame Judi Dench as the Queen mourning the death of Prince Albert and her friendship/romance with her unconventional Scottish servant John Brown.▼
* Appears in ''two'' [[Jackie Chan]] movies - played by [[Kathy Bates]] in ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'', and Gemma Jones in ''[[Shanghai Knights]]''.▼
* ''[[The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
== [[Literature]] ==
* One of ''[[The Royal Diaries]]'' books is "written" by Queen Victoria when she is in her late preteens/early teens.
** Incidentally, in real life Victoria really was an obssessive journal writer, even by the standards of the times.
▲* ''[[Mrs Brown]]'' starring Dame Judi Dench as the Queen mourning the death of Prince Albert and her friendship/romance with her unconventional Scottish servant John Brown.
▲* In ''[[Black Butler]]'', main character Ciel Phantomhive directly serves as her "watchdog" as part of his family's role and does what she wants to protect the country, essentially serving as England's black-ops.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Tooth and Claw". A running subplot in the episode is a bet between the Doctor and his companion Rose whether or not they could get the Queen to say "I am not amused".▼
* A child Victoria makes an appearance in the [[Gaslamp Fantasy]] ''[[Sorcery and Cecelia|The Missing Magician]]''. Also it turns out that as she is of [[Royal Blood]], no one can cast spells on her because England's ley lines protect her.
▲* ''[[The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!|The Pirates in An Adventure With Scientists]]'' has Queen Victoria as a katana-wielding [[The Caligula|Caligula]] and [[Cruella to Animals]].
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲* Appears in ''two'' [[Jackie Chan]] movies - played by [[Kathy Bates]] in ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'', and Gemma Jones in ''[[Shanghai Knights]]''.
▲* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Tooth and Claw". A running subplot in the episode is a bet between the Doctor and his companion Rose whether or not they could get the Queen to say "
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