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The Encyclopaedia Britannica says of Queen Victoria that her reign ‘restored dignity and popularity to the British Crown and may have saved the monarchy from abolition.’* She acceded to the throne in 1837, c64G~1840, which like all G~ times seems [sic] likely to be difficult for monarchy.

The next 64G~ is 1904, but Victoria was in mourning for Albert for the last 40 years of her reign (1861-1901).** I guess it must have been in the middle or (possibly) later years of this period that she was known as ‘The Widow at Windsor’, as [Rudyard] Kipling’s poem describes her (from Barrack Room Ballads’ published in 1892,*** per O[xford] D[ictionary of] Quotations) – and became unpopular; but if my recollection is correct this unpopularity did not continue until her death.

*Encyclopaedia Britannica 12:349

**64C1856

64M~1872

***64A~1888

(64G~1904)

{So? – Queens are Different.}

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