Queen Victoria’s Bloomers

Posted on | July 31, 2008 | 4 Comments

It has been a good week for sarcasm. As I said in my previous post – the gods of sarcasm have blessed me this week.

Guess why I’m happy now?

The headline should have tipped you off…

Queen Victoria’s bloomers have just been sold at an auction for the, ahem, princely sum of $9,000!

Yes her handmade 1890 knickers were in full view of the vulgar public.  Not only were her unmentionables given a very public airing, her waist size was revealed. The late Queen of rotundity had a whopping size 50 waist – none of this size zero nonsense for this pillar of modesty. Top that off with a 66 inch bust and … well … there you have it – the very model of Imperial womanhood. Holy Hanna she only topped out at about 5ft tall – she must have looked like a pocket battleship marching down the halls of Windsor Castle.

Somehow I don’t think she would be amused. Can’t you just hear her outrage? The woman who gave prurient, prudishness it’s very name having her delicates being waved about by the proletariats?

They were purchased by a collector here in Toronto. A collector of all things Queen Victoria, not a collector of antique undergarments – gutter mind! Shame on you for thinking anything but.

Wonder what she would have thought about her underwear heading off to the colonies to be owned by a man?

“We are not amused. No not amused, one bit”. One might be tempted to say, she’d get her knickers in a twist over the entire episode.

Hee hee… thank you oh great gods of sarcasm. You have brought me a bumper week of fun.

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4 Responses to “Queen Victoria’s Bloomers”

  1. frog the dog
    August 6th, 2008 @ 4:36 pm

    We’re all shocked! Queen Vic’s knickers gone to Toronto??
    surely there should have been a whip round to keep them over here.
    or over her possibly.
    hehe

  2. catpaw
    August 6th, 2008 @ 6:41 pm

    There is something mildly shocking about the notion, isn’t there.

  3. Roufa Tav Gosou & Mimi Lass
    August 13th, 2008 @ 11:17 am

    And only $9,000??? That’s like less than 5,000 pounds!

    Oh, the horror, the disgrace…

  4. catpaw
    September 21st, 2008 @ 7:48 pm

    Yea… can’t you just hear good Queen Bess flipping over in her grave?