“great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves”
“i don’t dislike babies, though i think very young ones rather disgusting”
“a marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one”
“the queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘women’s rights’. it is a subject which makes the queen so furious that she cannot contain herself”
“we are not amused”
sunday 17th june 2012 – queen victoria – royal leamington spa england
peace
She was really quite the charmer, wasn’t she? That’s a very telling collection of quotes.
never knew she was so ‘anti woman’ and marriage for that matter, apparently she was
Anyone who’s afraid of ankles in public is obviously a little off the beam.
too true, too true!!