# Queen Victoria's diaries are now online! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045 "2012-05-25T04:53:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/1 "2012-05-25T04:53:29Z")
Mods - since this is a printed work then Cafe Society, ok? I know where I’ll be surfing and reading for the next few months. 😃 40,000 pages :eek: - I’ll be surfing & reading there for a year easy. This is such an historical treasure. Imagine a first hand look at the Brist Monarchy at the very height of it’s colonial empire. A time when the sun never set on the British Empire. What a wonderful gift to the world from Queen Elisabeth. I can’t wait to start reading. Queen Victoria’s Diaries. **The Twitter account @QueenVictoriaRI will be active during the Jubilee period.** > [@](#): > > The diary of Queen Victoria, aged 13: 40,000 pages of monarch’s journals launched online by great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth > > ``` > Wrote diary from 1832 until her death in 1901 > > Entry from January 1843: 'Wrote in my journal, which I am vain enough to think may perhaps some day be reduced to interesting memoirs' > > Journals illustrated with sketches and paintings, also online, by Victoria herself > > Launch timed to coincide with the 193rd anniversary of Victoria’s birth > Six-month project carried out to mark Diamond Jubilee > > ``` > **[The diary of Queen Victoria, aged 13: 40,000 pages of monarch's journals...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149551/The-diary-Queen-Victoria-aged-13-40-000-pages-monarchs-journals-launched-online-great-great-granddaughter.html)** > > The Queen was handed a remote control in Buckingham Palace’s throne room, which she pointed at a screen to officially launch the website - but revealed she had no plans to publish her own diaries. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/2 "2012-05-25T05:27:02Z")
Very interesting. I knew she kept a diary, but I didn’t know how much of her papers survived. Also I thought she wrote in German. I wonder if there’s anything in them about Mr Brown. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/3 "2012-05-25T05:35:56Z")
I’ve started following the twitter account. Daily tweets from Queen Victoria. 😃 I love it. Using her diaries for tweets. Clever idea. Not everything is transcribed yet. All the handwritten pages are scanned and are available on the web site. I gather they will continue transcribing and posting through the Jubilee. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/4 "2012-05-25T05:56:26Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Very interesting. I knew she kept a diary, but I didn’t know how much of her papers survived. Also I thought she wrote in German. I wonder if there’s anything in them about Mr Brown. It’s very unlikely that there’s anything in there about John Brown. After she died, her daughter Beatrice went and edited out anything she felt was inappropriate. The rest of the family was furious over it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/5 "2012-05-25T06:11:03Z")
**The Secret Diary of Victoria Regina, Aged 13 3/4** ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/6 "2012-05-25T13:39:27Z")
I assumed anything salacious or controversial would have been purged from the diaries by Victoria herself or by the original book publishers (at the family’s request). Weren’t the original publishing only for the Royals? I can’t imagine commoners being offered these books prior to 1930 or maybe not until the 1950’s. The Royals love their privacy. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/7 "2012-05-25T19:16:08Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > **The Secret Diary of Victoria Regina, Aged 13 3/4** She wasn’t queen until she was eighteen, inheriting from her Uncle William. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/8 "2012-05-25T19:49:27Z")
The thread title was right above one that had the word “movie” in it, and I kid you not, somehow I read this thread’s title as “Queen Victoria’s ovaries are now online!” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/9 "2012-05-25T23:43:30Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > She wasn’t queen until she was eighteen, inheriting from her Uncle William. _sigh_ I knew someone would be pedantic and ignore the joke. I went with the assumption that she didn’t officially have a last name, but needed to keep the rhythm of the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/10 "2012-05-26T00:33:01Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _sigh_ I knew someone would be pedantic and ignore the joke. I went with the assumption that she didn’t officially have a last name, but needed to keep the rhythm of the joke. Perhaps I’m not culturally attuned but where was the joke? Is it a current pop-culture reference? If so, I have no kids and am 57, so I’m out of touch. Please don’t assume someone is ignoring something or trying to be pedantic. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-victorias-diaries-are-now-online/623045/11 "2012-05-26T10:44:35Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Perhaps I’m not culturally attuned but where was the joke? Fair enough. I tried to make it clear, even if you didn’t recognise it, that it was a pop culture reference. Anyway, it’s not recent, but [reasonably widely known](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Diary_of_Adrian_Mole,_Aged_13%C2%BE).