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Rumour has it that a wad of dirty money has changed hands under the table to facilitate the deal, which I'm sure is what happened too when this bridge was first erected, ostensibly to honour Queen Victoria.† (source)
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These houses were built in the time of Queen Victoria herself and if this lavatory was ever cleaned it must have been done by someone in the middle of the night when no one was lookin'.† (source)
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Queen Victoria had a party there or something.† (source)
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Queen Victoria and her entourage occupied the first few pews on the right side of the church.† (source)
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Word of his gift spread and in 1858 he was summoned to Windsor Castle in England to calm a horse of Queen Victoria's.† (source)
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Statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, or something?† (source)
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The scarf's a hundred years old, and it was given to you by Queen Victoria right before she died, for special services to the Crown or something.† (source)
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To carry conviction on this point, I will take the extreme course of narrating the plots of two plays witnessed within the last ten years by myself at London West End theatres, one licensed by the late Queen Victoria's Reader of Plays, the other by the present Reader to the King.† (source)
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Even Queen Victoria herself is a devotee.† (source)
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I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter: Close your eyes and think of England.† (source)
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It was not difficult to persuade them to give him return passage in exchange for the cabin he had surrendered to the representative of Queen Victoria.† (source)
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Even at Queen Victoria's dinner-party—if something had been just a little Different—perhaps if she'd worn a clinging Liberty tea-gown instead of a magenta satin.† (source)
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Africa figured in the curriculum as a playground for Portugal, Britain, and France, and a place for Livingstone to find the spectacular falls he named after Queen Victoria, and for Stanley to find Livingstone.† (source)
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He was Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's youngest son, and he had been sent to Christ Church so that Dean Liddell might oversee his education.† (source)
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The Resolute desk, as it is known, was carved from the timbers of an ill-fated British vessel and was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880.† (source)
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I wandered through the ancient Greek and Egyptian galleries, but my favorite spot was the manuscript room, with letters written by the kings and queens of England, Henry VIII and poor Anne Boleyn, and Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria.† (source)
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