We Are Not Amused – Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch

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We Are Not Amused!" is a primary school musical for KS2 full of hearty laughs and toe-tapping tunes. Everything that takes place is historically accurate (well nearly everything) which makes it informative, as well as very entertaining. On 14 January 1858, an Italian refugee from Britain called Felice Orsini attempted to assassinate NapoleonIII with a bomb made in England. [105] The ensuing diplomatic crisis destabilised the government, and Palmerston resigned. Derby was reinstated as prime minister. [106] Victoria and Albert attended the opening of a new basin at the French military port of Cherbourg on 5August 1858, in an attempt by NapoleonIII to reassure Britain that his military preparations were directed elsewhere. On her return Victoria wrote to Derby reprimanding him for the poor state of the Royal Navy in comparison to the French Navy. [107] Derby's ministry did not last long, and in June 1859 Victoria recalled Palmerston to office. [108] Romy Schneider in the West German biopic Victoria in Dover (1954), remake of the 1936 film, which features a highly fictionalised story about Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne and marriage to Prince Albert Fulford, Roger, ed. (1976), Darling Child: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess of Prussia, 1871–1878, London: Evans Brothers Bragança, Jose Vicente de (2014), "Agraciamentos Portugueses Aos Príncipes da Casa Saxe-Coburgo-Gota"[Portuguese Honours awarded to Princes of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha], Pro Phalaris (in Portuguese), vol.9–10, p.6, archived from the original on 25 November 2021 , retrieved 28 November 2019

Disraeli (1929)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016 . Retrieved 22 September 2016. One of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll's works as a sculptor is her marble statue of her mother at Kensington Palace, and a bronze version erected in front of the Royal Victoria College, McGill University in Montreal. [16] Real orden de damas nobles de la Reina Maria Luisa", Calendario Manual y Guía de Forasteros en Madrid (in Spanish), Madrid: Imprenta Real, p.91, 1834, archived from the original on 28 March 2021 , retrieved 21 November 2019– via hathitrust.org See also: Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria Victoria amused. The remark "We are not amused" is attributed to her but there is no direct evidence that she ever said it, [66] [212] and she denied doing so. [213] Her staff and family recorded that Victoria "was immensely amused and roared with laughter" on many occasions. [214]

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Through the 1860s, Victoria relied increasingly on a manservant from Scotland, John Brown. [127] Rumours of a romantic connection and even a secret marriage appeared in print, and some referred to the Queen as "Mrs. Brown". [128] The story of their relationship was the subject of the 1997 movie Mrs. Brown. A painting by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer depicting the Queen with Brown was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and Victoria published a book, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, which featured Brown prominently and in which the Queen praised him highly. [129] This is the story of the life and times of Queen Victoria, ruler of the vast British empire, during an era that was famous for invention, innovation and cultural change. The evidence to support the idea that Queen Victoria originated the expression 'we are not amused' lies somewhere between thin and non-existent. At the end of her reign, the Queen's full style was: "Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India". [235] Honours British honours Letter to King of the Belgians, Nuneham, 15th June, 1841 (Note: Nuneham was the house of Edward Vernon Harcourt, Archbishop of York).

Find sources: "Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( February 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Fulford, Roger, ed. (1968), Dearest Mama: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia, 1861–1864, London: Evans Brothers visit of Queen Victoria, Château de Versailles, archived from the original on 11 January 2013 , retrieved 29 March 2013 Queen Victoria appears in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's graphic novel From Hell, where she is depicted as instigating the Whitechapel murders.Jane Connell in an episode of the American sitcom Bewitched titled "Aunt Clara's Victoria Victory" (1967) In 1830, the Duchess and Conroy took Victoria across the centre of England to visit the Malvern Hills, stopping at towns and great country houses along the way. [14] Similar journeys to other parts of England and Wales were taken in 1832, 1833, 1834 and 1835. To the King's annoyance, Victoria was enthusiastically welcomed in each of the stops. [15] William compared the journeys to royal progresses and was concerned that they portrayed Victoria as his rival rather than his heir presumptive. [16] Victoria disliked the trips; the constant round of public appearances made her tired and ill, and there was little time for her to rest. [17] She objected on the grounds of the King's disapproval, but her mother dismissed his complaints as motivated by jealousy and forced Victoria to continue the tours. [18] At Ramsgate in October 1835, Victoria contracted a severe fever, which Conroy initially dismissed as a childish pretence. [19] While Victoria was ill, Conroy and the Duchess unsuccessfully badgered her to make Conroy her private secretary. [20] As a teenager, Victoria resisted persistent attempts by her mother and Conroy to appoint him to her staff. [21] Once queen, she banned him from her presence, but he remained in her mother's household. [22] Homans, Margaret; Munich, Adrienne, eds. (1997), Remaking Queen Victoria, Cambridge University Press Ramm, Agatha, ed. (1990), Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters between Queen Victoria and Her Eldest Daughter, 1886–1901, Stroud: Sutton Publishing, ISBN 978-0-86299-880-6

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. But I cannot abandon my own subjects who have appealed to me for protection. If President Kruger is reasonable, there will be no war, but the issue is in his hands.

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