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Portrait of Queen Victoria is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the English-American artist Thomas Sully, from 1838.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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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; 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.”
— Extract from the Queen's Journal, Tuesday, 20th June 1837.
“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).
“My dearest Uncle,- I have the greatest pleasure in announcing to you a piece of news which I know will give you as much satisfaction and relief as it does to us, and will do to the whole of the world. Lord Palmerston is no longer Foreign Secretary—and Lord Granville has already named his successor!”
— Early Belgian colonial Efforts: The long and fateful shadow of Leopold I, Page 67 Victoria to Leopold, 23 December, 1851, in Benson, 2:345.
“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.
“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.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Portrait of Queen Victoria is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the English-American artist Thomas Sully, from 1838.

Overview

Portrait of Queen Victoria is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the English-American artist Thomas Sully, from 1838.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“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.”
— Extract from the Queen's Journal, Tuesday, 20th June 1837.
“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).
“My dearest Uncle,- I have the greatest pleasure in announcing to you a piece of news which I know will give you as much satisfaction and relief as it does to us, and will do to the whole of the world. Lord Palmerston is no longer Foreign Secretary—and Lord Granville has already named his successor!”
— Early Belgian colonial Efforts: The long and fateful shadow of Leopold I, Page 67 Victoria to Leopold, 23 December, 1851, in Benson, 2:345.
“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.
“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.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Queen Victoria across IJR

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Where does Queen Victoria rank?

History

Most influential monarchs of England

8 candidates · 637 votes · vote on the order

History

Most influential 19th-century figures

8 candidates · 519 votes · vote on the order

History

Greatest women who ruled

8 candidates · 452 votes · vote on the order

History

Most Influential Women in World History

18 candidates · 0 votes · vote on the order