I will be good.
— Attributed to Victoria at 11, on being told that she would be queen someday
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.
— Victoria at 18 in her diary, after becoming Queen
A clip of Judi Dench as Queen Victoria from Mrs. Brown:
"Without you I cannot find the strength to be who I must be..."
Mike: ...A frigid empire-obsessed dowager.
"Without you I cannot find the strength to be who I must be..."
Mike: ...A frigid empire-obsessed dowager.
— The MST3K 1998 Oscar Special