Queen Victoria:

I have never been able to understand why I am so popular.

— Queen Victoria Modern

British monarch, Victorian era

A humble or perhaps disingenuous statement from a widely adored monarch.

c. 1880s

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"Being a Queen is a most unpleasant and uninteresting profession."

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"No one is to address me unless I address them first."

"The Queen is a woman, not a machine."