Queen Victoria/1842-1860

Famous quotes containing the words queen and/or victoria:

    “I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “Sometimes my wife complains that she’s overwhelmed with work and just can’t take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. I’ll offer to do it for her, and then she’ll say, “No, I’ll do it.” We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role—it’s not given up easily.”
    —Anonymous Father. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 3 (1992)