Queen Victoria

Arnstein, Walter L.

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“…Walter Arnstein argues that she demonstrated a brand of Victorian multiculturalism, seeing 'herself far less as the head of a homogenous nation-state than as the head of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious Empire' and 'insist [ing] time and again that other traditions and religions and even rulers in the Empire deserved respect'. 15 At the same time, she believed that the expansion of British rule (rather than German, French, or Russian) would serve to push civilisation forward. As a constitutional monarch, she had little power to live up to her mythology as the Great Queen, defender of subject peoples, and did not choose to spend what little political capital she had on defending her subjects.…”

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“…He was selected in a Greek plebiscite to fill the throne left vacant by the deposition of King Otho. The prospect of accepting this 'election' was interpreted by the British government to be a violation of the 1830 London Protocol, designed Charles V. Reed -9781526123848 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 07/05/2020 11:45:04AM via free access [ 15 ] to limit the influence of any individual 'protecting power' on an independent Greek state. 47 He married the daughter of Tsar Alexander II and later became the hereditary duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha.…”

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British royals at home with the empire

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2017

Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860–1911

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We were so frightened to hear that our husbands were going to war.… We had no slight idea what the war was about, the thing is, we only heard that Queen [Victoria] has asked for help, so they are going to fight for the Queen. We then know that this involves us, if they [the Germans] are fighting the Queen, as we were her people. We were under her, and she helped us against our enemies and with other things, so we had to help her. We didn't know how long they were going to take there. Even if we were afraid we just encouraged them to go in the name of God, we will also pray for them whilst gone, so that they can help the Queen as she helped us.Miriam Pilane of Bechuanaland, post-war interview 1

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British royals at home with the empire

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“…He was selected in a Greek plebiscite to fill the throne left vacant by the deposition of King Otho. The prospect of accepting this 'election' was interpreted by the British government to be a violation of the 1830 London Protocol, designed [ 15 ] to limit the influence of any individual 'protecting power' on an independent Greek state. 47 He married the daughter of Tsar Alexander II and later became the hereditary duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha.…”

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British royals at home with the empire We were so frightened to hear that our husbands were going to war.… We had no slight idea what the war was about, the thing is, we only heard that Queen [Victoria] has asked for help, so they are going to fight for the Queen. We then know that this involves us, if they [the Germans] are fighting the Queen, as we were her people. We were under her, and she helped us against our enemies and with other things, so we had to help her. We didn't know how long they were going to take there. Even if we were afraid we just encouraged them to go in the name of God, we will also pray for them whilst gone, so that they can help the Queen as she helped us. Miriam Pilane of Bechuanaland, postwar interview 1 As Miriam Pilane saw it, the Tswana-speaking peoples of southern Africa were motivated to serve the British war effort during the Second World War because of their loyalty to a long-dead British Queen. While her invoking of the Great White Queen was, at some level, simply an instance of confusion, it also demonstrates the longevity of Queen Victoria as a symbol of British justice and benevolence, the image carefully nurtured by colonial officials and imperial stakeholders of the Queen as the mother of empire. Despite anti-colonial movements of the interwar period and imperial betrayals from the Union of South Africa to the Amritsar Massacre, this image managed to survive, a testament to the effectiveness of imperial propaganda. Through the ideological work of colonial officials, Queen Victoria's subjects across the empire imagined her to be a justice-giving imperial mother. There are perhaps more statues of Victoria on earth than of any other non-religious figure in history. She sits or stands among whizzing automobiles in Auckland, in front of neo-Gothic façades in Mumbai, and near the waterfront that bears her name in Cape Town-in bustling metropolises and provincial towns, near churches, mosques, and temples. In 1876, using the successes of the Prince of

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War of the Wild Roses

Takach

2016

Scripting the Environment

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Queen Victoria

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