Meh. With how many match-making monarchs, and how many disastrous wars there were in Europe from (say) 950 to 1950, it seems trivial to argue that Queen Victor

Meh. With how many match-making monarchs, and how many disastrous wars there were in Europe from (say) 950 to 1950, it seems trivial to argue that Queen Victoria was nothing special in this regard. Notice how very few non-ceremonial monarchs Europe has these days. And recall Churchill's famous quote about democratic government - https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form-of-government/ https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form... - from just after WWII. When it was d*mned clear that WWI and WWII had demoted the British Empire from being the world's obvious sole superpower...to being a poor, hungry little sidekick to the USA. In a mere 1/3 of a century, starting more than a decade after Victoria's death.