she wasn't always old... ya think this didn't like to play tickle and bite???
How many kids did she have? That’s a bit of a clue that something was going on.
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?
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.
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
But I guess I'm wrong... /s
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]”.
I read the same thing about Liz II. After WWII and her marriage to that card Phil, she couldn’t get enuff of that funky stuff.
bump
She had like nine kids and had all the John Brown rumors. Hard to do that be a sexless old hag.