Queen Victoria careless The setting is a theatre

The setting is a theatre and the curtain is just about to rise

England hero Ian Botham celebrates taking an Australian wicket

and ministers were off to enjoy a long summer recess

22nd August 1970

Punch is making the point that the only confession that should be permitted in Britain should be that of a wife to her husband

Queen Victoria careless The setting is a theatreQueen Victoria, 1859. Victoria (1819 1901) succeeded her uncle, William IV, to the throne in 1837. Her reign, the longest of any British monarch to date, saw the peak of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the British Empire into the world's pre eminent power.