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

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Apparently, the Queen referred to “ we” as the ladies in the room, not using it in the royal persona. The first use of it in print occurs in the “ Notebooks of a Spinster Lady,” published by Holland in 1919, where the author states the Queen made the statement. Goldener Löwen-orden", Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1885, p. 35, archived from the original on 6 September 2021 , retrieved 6 September 2021– via hathitrust.org Victoria's journal, 1January 1901, quoted in Hibbert, p. 492; Longford, p. 559 and St Aubyn, p. 592 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.” Albert became an important political adviser as well as the Queen's companion, replacing Melbourne as the dominant influential figure in the first half of her life. [57] Victoria's mother was evicted from the palace, to Ingestre House in Belgrave Square. After the death of Victoria's aunt Princess Augusta in 1840, Victoria's mother was given both Clarence and Frogmore Houses. [58] Through Albert's mediation, relations between mother and daughter slowly improved. [59] Contemporary lithograph of Edward Oxford's attempt to assassinate Victoria, 1840

Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1984), Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals, London: John Murray, ISBN 0-7195-4107-7 a b Louda, Jiří; Maclagan, Michael (1999), Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, London: Little, Brown, pp.32, 34, ISBN 978-1-85605-469-0

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James, Robert Rhodes (1983), Albert, Prince Consort: A Biography, Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 9780394407630 Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1903). Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada. Toronto: Williams Briggs. p. 1. Holland doesn't claim to have been present at the dinner and is good enough to describe the account as a 'tale', that is, her account has the same standing as "a man in the pub told me".

This supposed quotation was attributed to Queen Victoria by courtier Caroline Holland in Notebooks of a Spinster Lady, 1919. Holland attests that Victoria made the remark at Windsor Castle: Using the phrase to say that you want someone to amuse you is the incorrect use of the expression. With this idiomatic expression, you’re telling people that you’re not happy with their behavior. It has nothing to do with entertainment. Acceptable Ways to Phrase We are not Amused Elsewhere, Disaster Scenes is a harsh indictment of the USA’s prison-industrial complex but also a deep dive into generational trauma that includes a haunting verse from Bad Cop/Bad Cop’s Stacey Dee about the sexual abuse she encountered as a child. And while Prison Camp sounds like a pleasant tropical island ditty, it actually reveals both the nature of the prison code and the myth of the American Dream. The record ends with Coda-fendants, a forlorn slow-motion burst of existential angst that captures the eternal agony of human existence in four-and-a-half minutes, as the phrase ‘ We are all we have ’til it’s all we had / Goodbye’ is repeated over and over as the song swells at the end before fading into nothing. In the 1874 general election, Disraeli was returned to power. He passed the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874, which removed Catholic rituals from the Anglican liturgy and which Victoria strongly supported. [150] She preferred short, simple services, and personally considered herself more aligned with the presbyterian Church of Scotland than the episcopal Church of England. [151] Disraeli also pushed the Royal Titles Act 1876 through Parliament, so that Victoria took the title "Empress of India" from 1May 1876. [152] The new title was proclaimed at the Delhi Durbar of 1January 1877. [153] Fulford, Roger, ed. (1964), Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal, 1858–1861, London: Evans Brothers

Did Queen Victoria really say 'we are not amused'?

Victoria, Queen (1868), Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861, London: Smith, Elder Fulford, Roger, ed. (1971), Beloved Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess, 1878–1885, London: Evans Brothers

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