We Are Not Amused

The rebuke We are not amused is attributed to Queen Victoria, but the evidence is thin. The earliest known attribution is in Caroline Holland’s Notebooks of a Spinster Lady, published in 1919, which tells it as a story she did not witness.

In a 1976 interview, Victoria’s granddaughter Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, reported that the Queen had denied ever saying it.

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