she wasn't always old... ya think this didn't like to play tickle and bite???
Posted on 08/21/2016 7:19:49 AM PDT by C19fan
Dour, sexless, perpetually unamused… Queen Victoria has had a notoriously bad press since her death in 1901.
Yet according to A.N. Wilson, the historical adviser to ITV drama Victoria, this reputation is not only wide of the mark, it was deliberate propaganda masterminded by a Royal Family desperate to suppress the truth about her passionate nature.
The court appointed two misogynistic homosexuals to get this message across – the suave courtier Viscount Esher and the academic and writer Arthur Benson, who wrote the lyrics to Land Of Hope And Glory. Together, they sanitised her letters for publication.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
How many kids did she have? That’s a bit of a clue that something was going on.
Nine kids - that’s a lot of bedroom activity.
The monarchy is so in-bred, I feel sorry for every in the UK that they did not get rid of them over the past couple hundred years.
Dour, sexless, perpetually unamused...
They know my ex?
Plus, if royal rumors are true she got a lot on the side. Cf. John Brown, Angus McKay.
Just lie back and think of England.
I visited Kensington Palace last year and got to learn a fair bit about Queen Victoria (as it was her childhood home and she and Albert spend a lot of time there, in addition to Windsor Castle). From what I learned, dull and sexless certainly did not apply to her. I knew (beforehand) Albert could be a strict, severe man, but that certainly was not atypical for that time.
Not really about her, per se, but I own every issue of the women’s magazine about that era, Victoria Magazine, ( and I am guessing because they are in storage, while we are living abroad); about 16 years worth.
Just saying, if there are any Victoria Magazine enthusiasts from the first era, who clicked on this link. ( Hearst stopped publishing it for a while.) It had beautiful pictures and articles about things like the Cotswold, high teas in castles, French markets, lovely American villages. It was a dream world, to me.
Not to mention her passion for Prince Albert was not the stuff of tepid arranged romance. He was her be-all and end-all. On the other hand, she DID have certain moral expectations from that gadabout son of hers who later became Edward VII. Expectations that were largely defeated, I might add.
Thanks for mentioning that, as even though I am more inclined to collect American Rifleman, I just looked up Victoria Magazine on Ebay and it seems very interesting.
The Victorians were wonderful people. Great builders and very intelligent. An amazing period in history and they always get such a dour tag. Nonsense. We could use people like that today
I once read that Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert would lock himself in his study to escape her incessant demands for sex. :-)
The Victorian era was the start of the Western “Golden Age” in all areas; i.e. science, technology, economics, politics etc.
You are kind. Have a blessed Sunday.
Wasn’t it the bathroom? ‘Victoria Honey, I’m in the can’
But I guess I'm wrong... /s
Like this?: http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/news/2011/12/bbc-unveils-sexy-portrait-of-queen-victoria.php
Looks like a thick neck or a pin-head, imho.
she wasn't always old... ya think this didn't like to play tickle and bite???
The part of the headline that got truncated was the most important part... “by A N Wilson”.
From Wikipedia:
In the late 1980s, Wilson stated publicly that he was an atheist and published a pamphlet Against Religion in the Chatto & Windus CounterBlasts series; however, religious and ecclesiological themes continue to inform his work. For nearly 30 years he continued to be both a sceptic, and a prominent atheist. However, in April 2009, he published articles in the New Statesman and Daily Mail affirming his rediscovery of faith, and conversion to Christianity, attacking at the same time in the Daily Mail article both academic and media atheists.[3] [4]”.
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