The word foodie is a popular word today, but many people may not know that Queen Victoria is also a veteran foodie, a lifetime of gluttony, and in her later years, she almost ate herself into a ball.
Many people can't understand why the king of a country, a man who is accustomed to eating and drinking, can have such a good appetite. Moreover, the most curious thing is that Victoria has never cared about its harm in her life, and eventually lived to be more than eighty years old.
But what about Queen Victoria's husband?
A lifetime of self-discipline, and even for a long time restrained and advised the queen to cherish the body.
But he eventually hung up early, living only half as long as the Queen (died at the age of 42). This is really a bit interesting, is the stem of health care reliable in the end?
However, we are not going to talk about health today, but want to explore why Queen Victoria loves to eat so much, why she can't completely restrain her appetite.
Queen Victoria was not tall, and when she was young, she was also considered to be in good shape.
This is because before she ascended to the throne, her mother had been constraining her diet, believing that a woman could not overindulge herself, and that foods other than rations, especially sweets, could not be eaten.
In fact, Queen Victoria's childhood was very bitter, only a few months old when she lost her father, and her mother took her through a relatively difficult life for a while.
Until she was qualified to inherit the throne, her mother paid more attention to her discipline: frugal dress, did not break royal rules, did not talk to strangers, did not show personal feelings, did not read according to personal likes and dislikes, and so on.
Moreover, although Queen Victoria's mother also held a dinner party that year, her daughter's food has always been strictly restrictive, and baby food has accompanied her for a long time.
At the same time, most of the time she was alone in the nursery eating simple food and could not participate in the banquet at all.
It was probably in this situation that a special desire for food was left in Queen Victoria's heart: she wanted to control the food herself, and she had the final say what she wanted to eat.
It is said that Queen Victoria was very adventurous in her eating, and she was very eager to try fresh foods, newly studied desserts, and even the food eaten by commoners.
In addition, being a king is very hard, Queen Victoria came to power at the age of 18, and those tedious government affairs, boring politics, and various problems have made her extremely stressed.
In such a situation, eating a meal when she is alone has become a happy moment in her life.
Soon, though, Prince Albert appeared, a man she truly loved, and for this man she restrained herself from eating for a while.
But it wasn't easy, as Queen Victoria had 9 children in 17 years.
This is also a high-consumption process, which must nourish the body. As a result, she quickly returned to a state of eating heavily.
As a result, people had such a perception at that time: every time the queen appeared in front of everyone's eyes after giving birth, her face would be much more plump.
It's just that production and government affairs have exhausted the queen's heart, so the big fat moment does not appear.
Here we have to say that it is the credit of Prince Albert, because of love, Queen Victoria, whether mentally or physically, is in a state of efficient consumption.
In such a reality, she will not gain weight quickly.
However, the death of Prince Albert in 1861 dealt a huge blow to the Queen.
The queen, who was in deep grief at the time, did not even want to be a king, and lived a life of deep simplicity for ten years.
However, in addition to grief, Queen Victoria seems to be able to perceive existence by eating.
So, when she reappeared in front of people's eyes, everyone suddenly found that the queen had become a round orb in a black widow's dress.
I believe that someone must be curious about what the queen eats, it is not difficult to imagine that she is the queen of the high, and her food has always been carefully developed.
Including the order of eating, that is all prescribed. However, abundance is absolute, otherwise the queen will not agree.
In this process, the queen has a lot of requirements for food, and will have certain habits.
For example, there is a dish that the Queen invented and loved at that time, that is, "veal gum", which is similar to a fast-food dish, which is formulated into a solid cube shape, and when eating it, it can be eaten by adding hot water.
In addition, it is said that the queen's food every morning is relatively light, such as boiled eggs, such as Windsor soup.
But this is also limited to breakfast, usually she is full of appetite, especially on a big holiday like Christmas, she will become like a child to look forward to, and even spend a lot of thoughts on it.
Statistics show that on Christmas Day, there will be 46 chefs in the Queen's kitchen to make food together.
Because she has to make a lot of snacks to give away, but don't think it's her love. Because after giving gifts, you will receive more gifts in return, and it is a variety of fresh and rare foods that are carefully prepared.
It is said that the snacks sent by the queen are not stingy, they are made of turkeys, pheasants, sandpipers, domestic chickens and other carnivores, boneless and stuffed with truffles, meat cores and other ingredients, and then these chickens are small to large, one by one, like matryoshka dolls.
Then cook over high heat and slice and serve.
The taste of this food is so unique and the taste is so rich that it will overflow with saliva just a little.
At Christmas dinner, the Queen's table was filled with almost all kinds of delicacies: wild boar heads from the Kaiser, sturgeon from the Tsar, foie gras from Archduke Mecklenburg Schwerin, wine from the Austrian King... There's also the Queen's own roast beef, a dish of beef legs that are baked from eight in the morning until eight in the evening.
With such a hard table, how does a widow get all the way down? I'm afraid we'll never be able to imagine it.
Of course, it is recorded that the queen will also eat leftovers, because there are too many dishes, and it cannot be wasted after eating, and she will eat for a week.
Seeing this, it seems understandable that Queen Victoria cannot restrain her appetite and cannot self-discipline her health. It is related to her childhood experience, and naturally it is also related to her longing for her husband.
A person, in the absence of a sense of security, or lack of spiritual sustenance, turns to food for solace.
It's just that although the queen is getting fatter and fatter, her body is so good that she has no words, lives to 82 years old, and has been strong and self-reliant. It is estimated that Prince Albert also said that he could not understand this matter, right?