When it comes to Queen Victoria, what image does anyone who has never seen have in their minds? Peerless appearance, decisive killing? Or is it to direct the country and the mountains, and to have far-reaching wisdom?
In fact, although Queen Victoria has made some contributions to Britain, she is also a role that is not bright in the history of the world, especially some of her personal embarrassing behaviors, even today, which are also naturally black lines.
For example, this woman, known as a grandmother in Europe, is not only bloated, but also addicted to eating.
According to many records, in queen Victoria's life, food played a very important role, how can there be a way to relieve worries? Only the feeling of eating a lot.
Queen Victoria never seemed embarrassed to eat, on the contrary, she ate indulgently for decades, leaving more "interpretation of the Queen" for future generations of historians.
What Victoria's appetite for eating reasons, from eating to seeing the queen's inner world and so on.
However, from the most extensive records, people seem to be most inclined to say that the queen was severely repressed from childhood, so she grew up to indulge herself by eating.
This is because Queen Victoria's mother, who used baby food to the extreme in her first eighteen-year-old life, caused the Queen to have a retaliatory backlash against eating.
As the book The Gluttonous Queen: Victoria's Diet and the Royal Secrets says, "A person's life is marked by eating... Anyone's life can be defined by food, but Victoria's life seems to be especially true. ”
But this really can't blame Queen Victoria's mother, the so-called love of women, she had to make this decision.
Look at Victoria's relatives, one by one, they passed away: grandfather, father, uncle, second uncle, third uncle... And they are not very old, which makes the mother's heart feel like a curse.
Because of this, the Queen's mother carried out strict life and health management for her daughter, the future heir to the throne, what to learn, what to do, what to eat, how much to eat... That's really all-encompassing.
When the Queen reached adolescence, the most common food on her table was baby food.
Well, this is indeed sad enough, three meals a day in the face of tasteless food bitterly depressed, that kind of despair is probably not what we can bear now.
So after the queen ascended the throne, she immediately changed the normal state of her life under the control of her mother: eating and drinking freely, not refusing to come, and loving to eat and eat.
If this is psychological research, it is still a very good case. At least, parent-child relationships, child growth, etc. can give parents a good orientation: excessive suppression of children's nature will only backfire.
However, if the queen loves to eat and is excusable, then her other habit may be tolerable, intolerable.
Yes, it was a very common practice in the past by Europeans: not loving to bathe.
This is not a European in the black past, after all, people's ideological concepts and material conditions at that time were different from those of now.
Regular bathing must not only have strong hot water resources, but also have a civilized ideological concept.
Therefore, it is said that some Europeans before the eighteenth century did not bathe for the rest of their lives.
Presumably in order to rationalize their embarrassment, Europeans see it as a self-depraved act. I believe that no one wants to be an unmotivated person, so choosing not to bathe has become a reasonable behavior.
But as the queen of a country, Victoria actually joined such a large group, very grounded to inherit the behavior of not loving bathing.
Even though she loved her husband, Prince Albert, and had nine children with him, bathing was never done.
Some people say that it is understandable, after all, the costumes in Europe in the past were very cumbersome, especially for aristocratic women, and it was quite time-consuming and laborious to wear and take off layer after layer.
But Victoria, as queen, was neither responsible for all the consequences of bathing, nor did she have to worry about the tediousness of putting on and undressing herself.
If you don't like to take a bath, I'm afraid it can only be explained as laziness.
Of course, Victoria was not the only king who did not like to bathe, it is said that Charlemagne was also a monarch who did not like to bathe, and other kings in Europe have always regarded bathing as a boring matter, preferring to devote more energy to other affairs.
But the most puzzling thing is that such a fat, and not fond of bathing queen, actually got the pure love of her husband's life: she had a strong relationship with Prince Albert, gave birth to 9 children in 17 years, and did not have any negative scandals in her life in terms of emotions, until her death.
Isn't this a bit of a queen? How strong, sharp, and attractive victoria had to be to lock her husband to her side and keep her single-minded and white-headed?
Not trustworthy? It doesn't seem necessary.
Victoria's unusual life trajectory after Prince Albert's death shows that she is also deeply in love with her husband. Some people even think that the queen's final gluttony is caused by the lack of space in her heart and too much pain.
Although there is no need to study whether the queen's love affair with her husband is real, it can be seen from the process of two people having nine children together: the marriage is unbreakable.
Can't figure it out? Queen Victoria, a legendary figure, has come out of her essential habit of calling herself a "troublemaker" into a mysterious personal charm.
This is completely unscientific, at least, and we have reason to doubt whether Prince Albert's preferences are normal.
But it is still the theory: the so-called embarrassment is as long as you don't feel it yourself, that embarrassment is someone else, Queen Victoria is taking this route, what is great about loving to eat, fatter is more blessed, what is great about not bathing, so that there is more "taste".
As long as your husband doesn't abandon me, you have no reason to feel my embarrassment.
Not only that, but the queen is still a fierce character. Most of his life was gluttonous, did not like to take a bath, and even later became obsessed with drinking, which was even exchanged for a long life that other members of the royal family did not have.
It can be said that queen Victoria has been in the second half of her life alone in grief, and her figure has become round like a day, but it has formed a perfect proportion to her life expectancy.
She lived to be 82 years old, becoming Britain's longest-reigning king until her abdication. This is really envious of many people, after all, who does not like to indulge but still have a great body?