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

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Sitting low down the table, he [Helps] described the members of the household as chatting and laughing, when the Queen—looking grimly at them—remarked, ‘We are not amused!‘ which must have had a cooling effect.”

Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. Victoria, a constitutional monarch, attempted privately to influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality. Fulford, Roger, ed. (1971), Beloved Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess, 1878–1885, London: Evans Brothers 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. Hibbert, Christopher (2000), Queen Victoria: A Personal History, London: HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-638843-4

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Queen Victoria is revealed to be watching the climactic trial in the video game The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, and uses her authority to strip the main villain of his position as chief justice. Rather than appearing in person, another character reads her proclamation to the court. a b c d e f g h i j Matthew, H. C. G.; Reynolds, K. D. (October 2009) [2004], "Victoria (1819–1901)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.), Oxford University Press, doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/36652 (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

The anecdote reads: "Sitting low down the table, he [Helps] described the members of the household as chatting and laughing, when the Queen—looking grimly at them—remarked, ‘We are not amused!’ which must have had a cooling effect." Kinealy, Christine, Private Responses to the Famine, University College Cork, archived from the original on 6 April 2013 , retrieved 29 March 2013 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1837). "to Victoria". Flowers of Loveliness, 1838. University of Virginia Library. St. Aubyn, Giles (1991), Queen Victoria: A Portrait, London: Sinclair-Stevenson, ISBN 1-85619-086-2

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She makes an appearance in the 2015 action-adventure video game Assassin's Creed: Syndicate developed by Ubisoft Quebec. [25] Victoria later described her childhood as "rather melancholy". [7] Her mother was extremely protective, and Victoria was raised largely isolated from other children under the so-called " Kensington System", an elaborate set of rules and protocols devised by the Duchess and her ambitious and domineering comptroller, Sir John Conroy, who was rumoured to be the Duchess's lover. [8] The system prevented the princess from meeting people whom her mother and Conroy deemed undesirable (including most of her father's family), and was designed to render her weak and dependent upon them. [9] The Duchess avoided the court because she was scandalised by the presence of King William's illegitimate children. [10] Victoria shared a bedroom with her mother every night, studied with private tutors to a regular timetable, and spent her play-hours with her dolls and her King Charles Spaniel, Dash. [11] Her lessons included French, German, Italian, and Latin, [12] but she spoke only English at home. [13] Self-portrait, 1835 Hull, David Stewart (1973) [1969]. Film in the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-21486-9. It seems to me a defect in our much famed Constitution, to have to part with an admirable Govt like Ld Salisbury's for no question of any importance or any particular reason, merely on account of the number of votes. Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal, Royal Collection, archived from the original on 17 January 2016 , retrieved 29 March 2013