Queen Victoria
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Historical figure.
Alexandrina Victoria (24 may 1819 - 22 january 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 june 1837 until her death. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
The Musgrave Ritual (1893)
- Sherlock Holmes proceeded to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. (Victoria Regina[1]) done in bullet-pocks (MUSG 5).
The Bruce-Partington Plans (1908)
- Sherlock Holmes mentioned her : "all the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men cannot avail" (about the Bruce-Partington case) (BRUC 580).
- Sherlock Holmes received an emerald tie-pin from "a certain gracious lady... of august name]] (BRUC 905).
The Veiled Lodger (1927)
- In Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes had a long row of year-books which filled a shelf, and there were the dispatch cases filled with documents, a perfect quarry for the student not only of crime, but of the social and official scandals of the late Victorian era (VEIL 3).
- ↑ Victoria Regina = Queen Victoria, in latin.
