Queen Victoria: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

** Also true about the phrase "[[Lie Back and Think of England|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.

* [[Grande Dame]]: Though she was not actually lacking humour, she is generally portrayed this way in fiction -- not ''entirely'' without justification.

* [[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.

* [[The High Queen]]: Or at least portrayed this way by sympathetic authors.

* [[History Marches On]]: It was once thought that the hemophilia Victorian passed on to one son and (through her carrier daughters) the royal families of Europe was "caused" by inbreeding. This is in itself nonsense, as inbreeding doesn't miraculously cause genetic mutations to happen; it merely concentrates genes (good and bad) and makes it more likely that ''recessive'' and ''polygenic'' traits will arise. But it's now been found that hemophilia is a ''sex-linked'' trait: a man only needs one defective gene (on his X chromosome) to be a hemophiliac. The chance of inheriting a condition caused by a single gene is no higher in inbred conditions than in outbred ones.

** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Winterhalter_-_Queen_Victoria_1843.jpg Or try this one].

* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Victoria and her husband Albert were first cousins; Albert's father and Victoria's mother were brother and sister.

* [[Long Runner]]

* [[Lord Error-Prone]]: the nearly-senile Lord Raglan, and the pugnacious and nearly-idiotic Earl of Cardigan (who invented Raglan sleeves and Cardigan sweaters, by the way), in the Crimean War. Together with a few others (Captain Nolan, the Earl of Lucan), and with Raglan's [[Poor Communication Kills|vague orders]], they caused the Charge of the Light Brigade. Raglan repeatedly referred to his enemies as "The French" (in a flashback to the Napoleonic Wars), even though the French were now on his side.

* ''[[Mrs Brown|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 (Manga)|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.

* A child Victoria makes an appearance in the [[Gaslamp Fantasy]] ''[[Sorcery and Cecelia (Literature)|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 (Animation)|The Pirates in An Adventure With Scientists]]'' has Queen Victoria as a katana-wielding [[The Caligula|Caligula]] and [[Cruella to Animals]].

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