One is Amused: The New Adventures of Queen Victoria
Ray Davies of The Kinks often dutifully crooned, “Long ago life was clean / Sex was bad and obscene / And the rich were so mean / Stately homes for the Lords / Croquet lawns, village greens / Victoria was my queen…” And rightly so. There was something particularly exalted about Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and…