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Viktorie byla královna Spojeného království Velké Británie a Irska od 20. června 1837 a první císařovna Indie od 1. května 1876 až do své smrti. Doba její vlády trvala 63 let a 7 měsíců, což je druhé nejdelší období vlády britského panovníka. Tato doba bývá označována jako viktoriánské období a je charakteristická bouřlivým průmyslovým, politickým, vědeckým a vojenským rozvojem britských území. Současná britská královna Alžběta II. je Viktoriinou prapravnučkou.

Ačkoli Viktorie nastoupila na trůn v době, kdy byla Británie zavedenou konstituční monarchií a panovník uplatňoval svůj vliv nepřímo přes doporučení předsedy vlády, byla královna stále velmi důležitým symbolem. Období její vlády bylo poznamenáno velkým rozšířením britského impéria, které v té době dosáhlo svého vrcholu a stalo se hlavní politickou silou světa té doby.

Viktorie pocházela z německého prostředí. Narodila se jako jediná dcera čtvrtého syna krále Jiřího III., prince Eduarda Augusta, vévody z Kentu a Strathearnu, a princezny Viktorie Sasko-Kobursko-Saalfeldské; jako taková byla vnučkou Jiřího III. a neteří svého předchůdce krále Viléma IV. Pro svých devět dětí a 42 vnoučat dohodla manželství po celé Evropě, a proto pak byla později nazývána evropskou babičkou. Jednalo se o posledního panovníka hannoverské dynastie na britském trůnu – její syn a nástupce Eduard VII. patřil do následující sasko-kobursko-gothajské dynastie.

✵ 24. květen 1819 – 22. leden 1901
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Victoria of the United Kingdom citát: “I will be good.”

“I will be good.”

Allegedly, 11-year-old Victoria's spoken response in 1830 when her governess let her know that one day she would be Queen. As discussed in Becoming Victoria by Lynne Vallone (2001) on p. 44 http://books.google.com/books?id=qFOPtHFpmAYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false-45, "the anecdote survives in a number of competing versions", some aspects of which the author calls "dubious". And as mentioned on p. 45, Victoria's own recollection of learning she would someday become Queen was "I cried much on learning it—& even deplored this contingency".
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“Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country;”

Extract from the Queen's Journal, Tuesday, 20th June 1837.
Kontext: Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil 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.

“It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.”

After being shot at by Roderick Maclean on 2 March 1882, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen (1987), p. 450.

“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.”

Comment made after Salisbury lost power to Gladstone in 1892, quoted in Queen Victoria: A Biographical Companion by Helen Rappaport (2003), p. 331 http://books.google.com/books?id=NLGhimIiFPoC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA331#v=onepage&q&f=false.

“I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Women's Rights," with all its attendant horrors… Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.”

In an 1870 letter, quoted for example in All For Love: Seven Centuries of Illicit Liaison by Val Horsler (2006), p. 104 http://books.google.com/books?id=PFyvAAAAIAAJ&q=%22most+anxious+to+enlist%22#search_anchor. At the bottom of this page http://www.historyofwomen.org/suffrage.html, it is mentioned that the comment was written in a letter to Sir Theodore Martin in reaction to news "that Viscountess Amberley had become president of the Bristol and West of England Women's Suffrage Society and had addressed a ... public meeting on the subject." The author of the page, Helena Wojtczak, says here http://www.historyofwomen.org/about.html that while other sources often fail to give the context, she "researched and discovered the source of the quote".

“Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.”

Letter to King of the Belgians, Nuneham, 15th June, 1841 (Note: Nuneham was the house of Edward Vernon Harcourt, Archbishop of York).

“Bolivia does not exist.”

On discovering that Bolivia is landlocked and its capital lay high in the mountains, having ordered the Royal Navy to bombard it. This anecdote is recounted in a few published sources such as The Rough Guide to Bolivia by James Read (2002), but no scholarly historical sources have been located.
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“All marriage is such a lottery -- the happiness is always an exchange -- though it may be a very happy one -- still the poor woman is bodily and morally the husband's slave. That always sticks in my throat. When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl -- and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.”

Zdroj: Letter (16 May 1860), published in Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal Previously Unpublished edited by Roger Fulfold (1964), p. 254. Also quoted in the article "Queen Victoria's Not So Victorian Writings" http://www.victoriana.com/doors/queenvictoria.htm by Heather Palmer (1997).

“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.”

December 1899 letter to Arthur Balfour during the "Black Week" of the Boer War, as quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), p. 539 http://books.google.com/books?id=4cl5c4T9LWkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA539#v=onepage&q&f=false.
According to Lady Gwendolen Cecil, it was a verbal statement to Mr. Balfour in Windsor Palace, as recorded in her biography of her Father, Life of Robert, marquis of Salisbury, volume 3 (1921), p. 191 http://archive.org/stream/lifeofrobertmarq03ceciuoft#page/190/mode/2up/search/we+are+not+interested+in+the+possibilities+of+defeat

“We are not amused.”

This quotation is attributed to Victoria, with varying stories. In Caroline Holland's Notebooks of a Spinster Lady, published in 1919, the story is put without clear details: "Her remarks can freeze as well as crystallise. There is a tale of the unfortunate equerry who ventured during dinner at Windsor to tell a story with a spice of scandal or impropriety in it. "We are not amused," said the Queen when he had finished" http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028287195#page/n279/mode/2up. Other stories describe it as a saying after viewing a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore or 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. The quote appeared in a chapter of the 1885 novel The Talk of the Town by James Payn, but without being attributed specifically to Queen Victoria. On p. 219 http://books.google.com/books?id=jugXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA219#v=onepage&q&f=false of the book, a character named William Henry is cut off in the midst of telling a story, and the author compares this to an anecdote involving an unnamed member of the Royalty: "There was once a young gentleman who was endeavouring to make himself agreeable as a raconteur in the presence of Royalty. When he had done his story, the Royal lips let fall these terrible words: 'We are not amused.' Poor William Henry found himself in much the same position." A book from two years later, the 1887 Royal Girls and Royal Courts by Mary Sherwood, does attribute the quote to Victoria in a chapter on English Royalty, in the following anecdote from p. 182 http://books.google.com/books?id=m_xZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA182#v=onepage&q&f=false: "Sir Arthur Helps, however, told a different story. Sitting low down the table, he 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." This article http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/07/nosism.html says that the Yale Book of Quotations by Fred Shapiro also gives Victoria's secretary Arthur Helps as the source, and that it was reported in an 1887 newspaper article, although since this was two years later than James Payn's anecdote in The Talk of the Town this might cast some doubt on the validity of the story. More recent documents suggest that the attribution of the quote to Victoria is in fact misguided, instead belonging to Queen Elizabeth I. An interview with Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone in 1976 states that the Princess asked her grandmother about this quotation and that Victoria said that she had never said the famous phrase (see the clip at 5:56 in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS4hAbHLszw, from the 2001 BBC program Reel Victorians: Nineties Girls http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/698971; the clip is from an interview that originally aired in the 1977 BBC program Royal Heritage: Victoria, Queen and Empress - The Princess Alice Interview http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/746389).
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