Posted on 06/11/2017 4:46:15 AM PDT by C19fan
Queen Victoria had a famous appetite and now her diet of cakes, calves heads and curry that took her from a seven stone bride to an 81-year-old with a 50 inch waist has been revealed. Food historian Annie Gray explains how Victoria had been fed a boring diet of bread and milk as a child by her controlling mother, the Duchess of Kent. But when she became Queen at 18, the young sovereign gorged on all manner of delicacies and quickly gained weight until she ended up at 9st 2lb.
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1 Stone =
14 Pounds. For some reason.
Because England. It’s like trying to explain old-school British money.
I went to visit the Queen’s Gallery in London about a couple of years ago, and they had a lovely ornate dessert tray made for Victoria in about 1833. They had other such things on display as well (it was part of an Art of the Garden exhibit).
That can’t be right for her weight. I’m 5’ 1” and I weigh 138 and my waist is no where near 50 inches. I’m not a twig, but I’m that big either.
“fresh druit” ? I had to search it before I concluded it was a typo. But some of those other foods I was unfamiliar with as well. :)
Those kind of bloomers have a draw string waist and are made over-sized so the two sides can overlap. Weird to us but the way women dressed then, with all the layers,that’s what worked for them. Even so, she did look mighty stout in her pictures as an older person.
I’m 60 inches high myself...last I checked I was 86lb. and just about right.
Hard to find clothes my size. :(
If she’d been vegan, watched her calories and carbs, exercised and ran 3 miles a day, she might have lived to 82.
I am not amused.
“Greedy.” Once again, an author who has no clue the definition of words. Perhaps gluttonous but not greedy.
calves what???
i think they might have had a typo in the article. Seems as if it would be 19 Stone 2 lbs. That would be 268 lbs.
The article had some huge typos. The first picture of a young Victoria is dated 1943!!!
16 oz. in a lb, 14 lbs in a stone...in the UK your weight figured in stones and ounces, so Victoria’s weigh would more probably have been 19 stone, and the rest would be ounces. Somebody just made a typo. I think Victoria must have been 19 stone which would have put her 5’ frame at 266 lbs. and the extra would be in ounces. She was a walking trampoline.
FWIW, I don’t care what she looked like.
I care that her progeny were a menace.
“By the time she married Albert, she was down to a slender 7st and despite having nine children in 17 years, she managed to keep her figure until her husband died in 1861.”
So...this greedy woman who couldn’t control herself kept her figure fine while having 9 kids in 17 years and didn’t gain weight until after her husband died. Kind of blows the thrust of the article.
Wasn’t she also the FIRST WOMAN to be given anesthesia for child birth, making the pain killer popular?
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