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British Orders and decorations.

Below the Royal crown on the cross are the words 'For
Valour'. On the reverse the date of the feat of valour is
engraved.

The earliest deed of valour to win the award was by
Charles David Lucas, a 21-year-old sailor on the ship
HMS Hecla who picked up a live shell fired onto the deck
of the ship with the fuse still hissing and threw it

overboard before it could explode.

Sayings: Queen Victoria is supposed to have said this as a 10-

year-old girl on learning that she was likely to become
queen in the future:
I will be good.

In reply to King Leopold of the Belgians, who, after the

birth of Queen Victoria's first child in 1840, had
expressed the hope that she would be the first of
many. The Queen had nine children in all:

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it
is for us women to go through this very often. God's will
be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great
number of children why we must try to bring them up as
useful and exemplary members of society.

Queen Victoria on marriage, writing in 1858:

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a
lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful
happiness.

Death and burial: Queen Victoria died on 22 January, 1901 at Osborne
House on the Isle of Wight. She was 82. She is buried in
a mausoleum at Frogmore, Windsor.

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