History UsefulNotes / QueenVictoria

She married her handsome cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a small principality in what is now [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Thuringia]], Germany, in 1840 and then ''never stopped breeding''[[labelnote:fun fact]]After having her first child, the queen noted the opinion that newborn babies were ugly, and also disliked breast-feeding. She went on to have eight more, and by some miracle by 19th century standards, ''all nine children made it to adulthood''. Doubly impressive: one of her sons was a hemophiliac, and actually lived long enough to reproduce - the only one of her descendants with the disease who did[[/labelnote]] until Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861, only 42, leaving Victoria stricken with grief. She never remarried, and indeed she spent the rest of her reign wearing only mourning colours and only rarely making public appearances and even more rarely living at Buckingham Palace; this earned her the not-entirely-complimentary nickname "the Widow of Windsor." As a result, republican sentiment in Britain was at its height, to the extent that some felt the monarchy was going to be abolished sooner or later; fortunately (for the monarchy at any rate), the Prince of Wales, and future Edward VII, "Bertie" had a better understanding of public relations and charmed the socks off the whole country, and partied the socks off the whole upper crust.[[note]]He also ''shagged'' the socks off... anyone female and willing, basically, but the former two seem to have cancelled this latter one out.[[/note]]

She married her handsome cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a small principality in what is now [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Thuringia]], Germany, in 1840 and then ''[[BabiesEverAfter never stopped breeding]]''[[labelnote:fun fact]]After having her first child, the queen noted the opinion that newborn babies were ugly, and also disliked breast-feeding. She went on to have eight more, and by some miracle by 19th century standards, ''all nine children made it to adulthood''. Doubly impressive: one of her sons was a hemophiliac, and actually lived long enough to reproduce - the only one of her descendants with the disease who did[[/labelnote]] until Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861, only 42, leaving Victoria stricken with grief. She never remarried, and indeed she spent the rest of her reign wearing only mourning colours and only rarely making public appearances and even more rarely living at Buckingham Palace; this earned her the not-entirely-complimentary nickname "the Widow of Windsor." As a result, republican sentiment in Britain was at its height, to the extent that some felt the monarchy was going to be abolished sooner or later; fortunately (for the monarchy at any rate), the Prince of Wales, and future Edward VII, "Bertie" had a better understanding of public relations and charmed the socks off the whole country, and partied the socks off the whole upper crust.[[note]]He also ''shagged'' the socks off... anyone female and willing, basically, but the former two seem to have cancelled this latter one out.[[/note]]

She married her handsome cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a small principality in what is now [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Thuringia]], Germany, in 1840 and then ''never stopped breeding''[[labelnote:fun fact]]After having her first child, the queen noted the opinion that newborn babies were ugly, and also disliked breast-feeding. She went on to have eight more, and by some miracle by 19th century standards, ''all nine children made it to adulthood''. Doubly impressive: one of her sons was a hemophiliac, and actually lived long enough to reproduce - the only one of her descendants with the disease who did[[/labelnote]] until Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861, only 42, leaving Victoria stricken with grief. She never remarried, and indeed she spent the rest of her reign wearing only mourning colours and only rarely making public appearances and even more rarely living at Buckingham Palace; this earned her the not-entirely-complimentary nickname "the Widow of Windsor." As a result, republican sentiment in Britain was at its height, to the extent that some felt the monarchy was going to be abolished sooner or later; fortunately (for the monarchy at any rate), the Prince of Wales, and future Edward VII, "Bertie" had a better understanding of public relations and charmed the socks off the whole country, and partied the socks off the whole upper crust.[[note]]He also ''shagged'' the socks off... anyone female and willing, basically, but the former two seem to have cancelled this latter one out.[[/note]]

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'s Christmas Carol'' has a short, chubby, highly-sexed, Victoria and a doofus Albert (played by Creator/Miriam Margolyes and Creator/JimBroadbent, respectively) singing Christmas carols, exchanging gifts and just in general being a HappilyMarried couple celebrating Christmas.

Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria, 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) reigned over [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire the largest empire the world has ever seen]]. She was a hugely important figure, causing sweeping changes in the history of many parts of the world, and inspiring her people. She was not simply a [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland prudish]] [[GrandeDame old woman with no sense of humour]], and in fact [[BeamMeUpScotty probably never said, "We are not amused"]].[[note]][[Website/{{Wikipedia}} That Other Wiki]] even has a photo on her article they note as "Victoria amused", which explains that she likely never said it.[[/note]]

Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria, 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) reigned over [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire the largest empire the world has ever seen]]. She was a hugely important figure, causing sweeping changes in the history of many parts of the world, and inspiring her people. She was not simply a [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland prudish]] [[GrandeDame old woman with no sense of humour]], and in fact [[BeamMeUpScotty probably never said, "We are not amused"]].

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'s Christmas Carol'' has a short, chubby, highly-sexed, Victoria and a doofus Albert (played by Miriam Margoles and Jim Broadbent, respectively) singing Christmas carols and exchanging gifts.

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Her reign was equally momentous, occupying nearly the entire period of the Industrial Revolution, from 1837 to 1901, and being the longest in British history till the 9th of September 2015, when her great-great-granddaughter [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Elizabeth II]] surpassed her.

* She is a supporting character in ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' where she orders Mycroft Holmes to retrieve the documents that contained the empire's top secret and in "The Final Problem" arc where she and Sherlock made a deal to lessen the House of Lords' superiority over the House of Commons once the detective accepts to capture the Lord of Crimes, William James Moriarty.

** The "Wacky Queen" sketch features Queen Victoria acting out silly hijinks from a turn-of-the-century silent film comedy, like squirting Gladstone with a garden hose.

Though she never stopped mourning for Prince Albert, she did to some extent move on eventually. Though her children and the upper class of Britain largely wished she ''hadn't'', because her close friendship (widely speculated to also be romantic) with her Scottish servant John Brown was widely seen as scandalous. Not only was he a commoner, he was seen as almost a barbarian for his complete lack of concern for their difference in social class. Victoria on the other hand seemed to find this refreshing. There were even rumors that she secretly married him, though most historians discount this.[[note]]Some conclude that if Victoria ''had'' remarried, even to someone so "inappropriate", she would've been headstrong enough not keep it secret.[[/note]] When Brown died in 1883 (at only 56), Victoria proceeded to scandalize the upper class again because her new favorite servant was Mohammed Abdul Karim, an Indian Muslim who taught Victoria the Hindustani (now known as Hindi) language after she was given the rank Empress of India and wished to be able to speak with her new subjects. While there was absolutely no hint of romance or of bad behavior by Karim, the simple fact that he was [[ValuesDissonance not white and not Christian]] meant that he was seen as an even more inappropriate friend for the Queen.

* She is featured in the animated prequel of 2004's ''Film/VanHelsing'' titled ''[[WesternAnimation/VanHelsingTheLondonAssignment The London Assignment]]'', where she kidnapped by [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Henry Jekyll]] who has a VillainousCrush on her (at least on her younger self) and plans to make her immortal with a youth potion created from [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the souls of his freshly killed victims]]. She is rescued by the titular protagonist, whom she develops some romantic feelings and even kissing him at the end.

* A very attractive, young Queen Victoria appears in ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'', and definitely has a sense of humor.

* In 2017, Dench reprised the role in ''Film/VictoriaAndAbdul'', which is about the relationship between Victoria and her Indian servant Abdul Karim.

* The film ''Film/Dolittle'' features a young and attractive Victoria(played by Jessie Buckley) falling severely ill and requiring a cure from the fruit of the [[FantasticFlora Eden Tree]], which Dr. Dolittle has to obtain himself.

** Incidentally, in real life Victoria really was an obsessive [[{{Diary}} journal writer]], even by the standards of the times. Her daily journals cover a 69 year period and totals 121 volumes (that would mean that Victoria wrote about two thousand words a day--i.e. roughly the daily output of a professional author).

* The series ''Series/{{Victoria}}'', which follows her early years on the throne and her [[MayDecemberRomance May-December]] relationship with the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne (whom it was long rumoured Victoria was in love with), and her romance and marriage to Prince Albert. Initially announced as a miniseries for broadcast in 2016, it was popular enough in its first few episodes that a second series was quickly commissioned for 2017, followed by a third for 2018. Creator/JennaColeman portrays the queen from the age of 18 onwards.

* In ''Videogame/SunlessSkies'', two sequels later, she's now become Her Renewed Majesty, and revitalized London as a whole into a proper, interstellar empire. She's also become a TimeMaster thanks to exploiting the failing laws of reality, which has [[GodEmperor gone to her head a teensy bit]]...

She had a famously good working relationship with Prime Minister UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli (who arranged for her to become Empress of India), and to a lesser extent with his eventual successor as Conservative Party leader, the UsefulNotes/MarquessOfSalisbury. By contrast, she had a famously ''bad'' working relationship with Disraeli's (and later Salisbury's) Liberal Party rival UsefulNotes/WilliamGladstone, in part because of his manner (she famously complained of him that he spoke to her "as if [she] were a public meeting"), and also because of his support for Irish home rule. The end result was that when Gladstone retired in 1894, she disregarded his advice to appoint Lord Spencer[[note]]Incidentally, [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Diana]]'s half-great-great-uncle[[/note]] as his successor and instead appointed UsefulNotes/TheEarlOfRosebery, Gladstone's unpopular foreign secretary, in what many felt was a transparent ploy to help Salisbury return to power. This naturally inflamed those who considered it unacceptable political interference on her part, but if so then it had the desired result -- Rosebery's government lasted barely a year, and Salisbury returned as PM following a LandslideElection, with him remaining in the office for the rest of her life (he stood down the year after her death). To put the icing on the cake, she denied Gladstone the earldom traditionally given to retired [=PMs=] who did not already have peerages. (As a result, it's pure bad luck that Gladstone didn't get an earldom; the future Edward VII liked and respected Gladstone as much as his mother had hated him, and if Gladstone had lived long enough to see Prince Bertie become King, it's likely he would have become Earl of Somewhere shortly after the new monarch's accession.)

She had a famously good working relationship with Prime Minister UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli (who arranged for her to become Empress of India), and to a lesser extent with his eventual successor as Conservative Party leader, the UsefulNotes/MarquessOfSalisbury. By contrast, she had a famously ''bad'' working relationship with Disraeli's (and later Salisbury's) Liberal Party rival UsefulNotes/WilliamGladstone, in part because of his manner (she famously complained of him that he spoke to her "as if [she] were a public meeting"), and also because of his support for Irish home rule. The end result was that when Gladstone retired in 1894, she disregarded his advice to appoint Lord Spencer as his successor and instead appointed UsefulNotes/TheEarlOfRosebery, Gladstone's unpopular foreign secretary, in what many felt was a transparent ploy to help Salisbury return to power. This naturally inflamed those who considered it unacceptable political interference on her part, but if so then it had the desired result -- Rosebery's government lasted barely a year, and Salisbury returned as PM following a LandslideElection, with him remaining in the office for the rest of her life (he stood down the year after her death). To put the icing on the cake, she denied Gladstone the earldom traditionally given to retired [=PMs=] who did not already have peerages. (As a result, it's pure bad luck that Gladstone didn't get an earldom; the future Edward VII liked and respected Gladstone as much as his mother had hated him, and if Gladstone had lived long enough to see Prince Bertie become King, it's likely he would have become Earl of Somewhere shortly after the new monarch's accession.)

She had a famously good working relationship with Prime Minister UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli (who arranged for her to become Empress of India), and to a lesser extent with his eventual successor as Conservative Party leader, the UsefulNotes/MarquessOfSalisbury. By contrast, she had a famously ''bad'' working relationship with Disraeli's (and later Salisbury's) Liberal Party rival UsefulNotes/WilliamGladstone, in part because of his manner (she famously complained of him that he spoke to her "as if [she] were a public meeting"), and also because of his support for Irish home rule. The end result was that when Gladstone retired in 1894, she disregarded his advice to appoint Lord Spencer as his successor and instead appointed UsefulNotes/TheEarlOfRosebery, Gladstone's unpopular foreign secretary, in what many felt was a transparent ploy to help Salisbury return to power. This naturally inflamed those who considered it unacceptable political interference on her part, but if so then it had the desired result -- Rosebery's government lasted barely a year, and Salisbury returned as PM following a LandslideElection, with him remaining in the office for the rest of her life (he stood down the year after her death)

She had a famously good working relationship with Prime Minister UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli (who arranged for her to become Empress of India), and to a lesser extent with his eventual successor as Conservative Party leader, the UsefulNotes/MarquessOfSalisbury. By contrast, she had a famously ''bad'' working relationship with Disraeli's (and later Salisbury's) Liberal Party rival UsefulNotes/WilliamGladstone, in part because of his overly casual manner towards her, and also because of his support for Irish home rule. The end result was that when Gladstone retired in 1894, she disregarded his advice to appoint Lord Spencer as his successor and instead appointed UsefulNotes/TheEarlOfRosebery, Gladstone's unpopular foreign secretary, in what many felt was a transparent ploy to help Salisbury return to power. This naturally inflamed those who considered it unacceptable political interference on her part, but if so then it had the desired result -- Rosebery's government lasted barely a year, and Salisbury returned as PM following a LandslideElection, with him remaining in the office for the rest of her life (he stood down the year after her death)

->'''Captain Blackadder:''' So your father's German[[note]]it was actually her mother who was German[[/note]], you're half-German, and you married a German?

She had a famously good working relationship with Prime Minister UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli, and to a lesser extent with his eventual successor as Conservative Party leader, the UsefulNotes/MarquessOfSalisbury. By contrast, she had a famously ''bad'' working relationship with Disraeli's (and later Salisbury's) Liberal Party rival UsefulNotes/WilliamGladstone, in part because of his overly casual manner towards her, and also because of his support for Irish home rule. The end result was that when Gladstone retired in 1894, she disregarded his advice to appoint Lord Spencer as his successor and instead appointed UsefulNotes/TheEarlOfRosebery, Gladstone's unpopular foreign secretary, in what many felt was a transparent ploy to help Salisbury return to power. This naturally inflamed those who considered it unacceptable political interference on her part, but if so then it had the desired result -- Rosebery's government lasted barely a year, and Salisbury returned as PM following a LandslideElection, with him remaining in the office for the rest of her life (he stood down the year after her death)

She married her handsome cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a small principality in what is now [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Thuringia]], Germany, in 1840 and then ''never stopped breeding''[[labelnote:fun fact]]After having her first child, the queen noted the opinion that newborn babies were ugly, and also disliked breast-feeding. She went on to have eight more, and by some miracle by 19th century standards, ''all nine children made it to adulthood''. Doubly impressive: one of her sons was a hemophiliac, and actually lived long enough to reproduce - the only one of her descendants with the disease who did[[/labelnote]] until Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861, only 42, leaving Victoria stricken with grief. She never remarried, and indeed she spent the rest of her reign wearing only mourning colours and only rarely making public appearances and even more rarely living at Buckingham Palace; this earned her the not-entirely-complimentary nickname "the Widow of Windsor." As a result, republican sentiment in Britain was at its height, to the extent that some felt the monarchy was going to be abolished sooner or later; fortunately (for the monarchy at any rate), the Prince of Wales, and future Edward VII, "Bertie" had a better understanding of public relations and charmed the socks off the whole country, and partied the socks off the whole upper crust.

* In 2017, Dench reprised the role in ''Film/{{Victoria and Abdul}}'', which is about the relationship between Victoria and her Indian servant Abdul Karim.

* In Australian and Kiwi cinema, Victoria is usually the unseen BigBad in whose name the EvilBrit colonialist officials oppress the poor Irish settlers and natives. Examples: ''Film/MadDogMorgan'', ''Film/NedKelly'', ''{{Film/Utu}}'', and ''Film/CaptainThunderbolt''. There's also ''Film/PicnicAtHangingRock'' where one scene contrasts Mrs. Appleyard's breakdown and a [[RuleOfSymbolism portrait of Queen Victoria glowering stoically from the wall]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Guest-starred in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw "Tooth and Claw"]], played by Pauline Collins. A running gag in the episode is Rose and the Doctor doing a SideBet in getting her to say "We are not amused." At the end of the episode, she knights them...and promptly has "Sir Doctor of TARDIS" and "Dame Rose of the Powell Estate" banished for their knowledge of the stars (then being considered heresy) and treating the whole thing like some sort of game. In direct response to the events of the episode, she founds the Series/{{Torchwood}} Institute. A later episode, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9EmpressOfMars "Empress of Mars"]], includes a [[CallBack portrait]] of the version of Victoria seen in this episode.

* Vicki and Albert begin to appear in episode 3 of the 1978 ITN miniseries ''Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic'', played by Rosemary Leach and Jeremy Longhurst. Disraeli is telling his wife that facing the royal couple is like -- cutting to our first view of them as Dizzy continues in voiceover -- "looking into a double-barreled shotgun."

She married her handsome cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a small principality in what is now Germany, in 1840 and then ''never stopped breeding''[[labelnote:fun fact]]After having her first child, the queen noted the opinion that newborn babies were ugly, and also disliked breast-feeding. She went on to have eight more, and by some miracle by 19th century standards, ''all nine children made it to adulthood''.[[/labelnote]] until Albert died of typhoid fever in 1861, only 42, leaving Victoria stricken with grief. She never remarried, and indeed she spent the rest of her reign wearing only mourning colours and only rarely making public appearances and even more rarely living at Buckingham Palace; this earned her the not-entirely-complimentary nickname "the Widow of Windsor." As a result, republican sentiment in Britain was at its height, to the extent that some felt the monarchy was going to be abolished sooner or later; fortunately (for the monarchy at any rate), the Prince of Wales, and future Edward VII, "Bertie" had a better understanding of public relations and charmed the socks off the whole country, and partied the socks off the whole upper crust.

** She continues to appear in the ''Torchwood'' audios, this time played by Rowena Cooper, where she is shown getting more directly involved with several of the Institute's cases. While initially portrayed as a BadassGrandma with a greater sense of humour than on TV she is also shown as more callous. Later episodes bring out even less sympathetic traits, such as her unrepentant complicity in the colonisation of India, through her relationship with Duleep Singh. Then there was the little fact of her hand in [[spoiler: creating The Committee of Erebus]].