Victoria: A Greedy Queen

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Warning: There are adult themes, explicit language and references of disordered eating and diets in this episode.

Did you know that before Queen Victoria married Albert she was a well-known party animal, who could easily stay up until 5am, drunk on a concoction of red wine and whiskey?

Or that she was notorious for being able to eat seven or eight courses in half an hour, and had a penchant for mutton curries and the freshest fruit?

Kate is joined Betwixt the Sheets by food historian Dr Annie Gray to discuss Victoria’s very indulgent habits which spilled out into all areas of her life…including the bedroom.

You can find Annie’s incredible book, The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria, here.

Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Annie Coloe.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, welcome to Dance Those History. It gives me great pleasure today.
0:03.8	Great pleasure to announce that we're launching a new podcast. You're the best thing about
0:08.8	this history adventure that I've been on that you've all been a critical part of, is
0:13.2	that as we gain momentum, as we get more successful, we're able to employ brilliant people and
0:20.5	make more and better history. And it's a great example of that. We've got a wonderful
0:25.3	new team working history at now and we've got this podcast presented by Kate Lister. She's
0:30.5	built my podcast several times. She is an absolute legend. She's a sex historian. She has written
0:36.5	a couple of wonderful books. I'm looking at one on my shelf right now. I absolutely could
0:40.4	not put them down. She is in charge of the halls of your social media feed with nearly
0:45.5	a million followers. She's a bit of a phenomenon and she is a brilliant, brilliant historian
0:51.0	and communicator. This is I met her. I was like, we need her on team history. She has got
0:55.4	to a pod. And this is the pod. We're launching it right now. It's called Betwixed the Sheets
1:00.6	and she unashamedly roops around the topics that were probably skipped in history class.
1:07.4	We got scandal. We got medieval cures for impotence. We got the etymology of swear words.
1:13.5	We got gender bias and medicine, voodoo, satanic panic. I like that. And LG BTQ plus court
1:22.1	cases and the history of those campaigns for equality. You know what? You're going to listen
1:27.3	to this. You're going to learn a lot. You're going to laugh. You're going to winch once
1:30.4	or twice. You're going to check to see if the kids are in listening distance. And you're
1:35.3	going to realize how those things around us have changed us humans, us monkey humans.
1:41.1	We haven't changed so much. You're going to love it. A huge thank you to Kate List of
1:45.3	a join the team, but also to Charlotte Long, Sophie G and Shay Adoobi for being so brilliant
1:50.8	and making this podcast happen. The whole team has been working on this for ages. They've
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