2007-06-10 03:30:45 · 4 answers · asked by abebech t 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It seems to me a defect in our much famed constitution, to have to part with an admirable government like Lord Salisbury's for no question of any importance, or any particular reason, merely on account of the number of votes.
We are not amused.
This quotation is attributed to Victoria, with varying stories. One has her saying it after viewing a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore. Other stories describe it as a reaction to a groom-in-waiting of hers, the Hon. Alexander Grantham Yorke, either to a theatrical production he put on, or to a risqué joke he told to a German guest and which the Queen asked him to repeat after the guest laughed loudly. In this account, she was not using the royal "we" but speaking for the affronted ladies of the court. [1]
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
The Queen's response to reports that British Forces had failed a mission in the Boer War in South Africa.
I will be good.
11-year-old Victoria's spoken response in 1830 when her governess let her know that one day she would be Queen.
Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfill my duty towards my country; I am very young, and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure, that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
her response in her diary upon becoming Queen in 1837 at age 18.
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2007-06-10 03:53:27 · answer #1 · answered by jewle8417 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Queen Victoria said:
"[Prince Alemayehu] was buried at Windsor Castle, with Queen Victoria describing as "too sad" his short life and early death"
2007-06-10 03:58:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Too sad", according to the BBC.
"His father, the Emperor Tewodros II, committed suicide after his defeat by the British at the Battle of Magdala in 1868."
"The young boy was taken to Britain and sent to boarding school and officers' training school at Sandhurst, but died at the age of 18."
"He was buried at Windsor Castle, with Queen Victoria describing as "too sad" his short life and early death."
"Ethiopia seeks prince's remains", BBC News : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6716921.stm
2007-06-10 04:00:12 · answer #3 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Holy f***ing s*hit!
2007-06-10 03:42:19 · answer #4 · answered by Chris F 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋