Queen Victoria: A Sugar Mama?

[JCMach1]

Queen Victoria's love for an Indian clerk revealed



A remarkable story of how an Indian brought to England to serve at a Buckingham Palace dinner became Queen Victoria's closest confidant is being unveiled in a new book.

The closeness of the 15-year relationship between the queen and her Muslim servant Abdul Karim, originally a clerk from Agra, so scandalised the royal court that, when Victoria died in 1901, her son, King Edward VII, ordered all records of the relationship, including correspondence and photographs, to be destroyed.

Karim might have remained a forgotten historical footnote had not the Kolkata-born author Shrabani Basu discovered, during research for a book she was writing on curry, that Victoria had ordered the dish to be on the royal menu daily during the final decade-and-a-half of her reign.

Intrigued, she started digging and, through a variety of sources, uncovered the "love story" of the Indian servant and the most powerful woman in the world... http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/south-asia/queen-victorias-love-for-an-indian-clerk-revealed



MILF?
GILF?
Cougar?
Sugar MaMa?

You decide... LOL :)

[whistler162]

1. Well she was a widow and it was actually the norm among

the gentry men and woman to have discrete liaison's, albeit not with servants usually. Who knows what the relationship was, perhaps just someone she could talk to. Since her husband was dead and her son was quite the Lothario

[Demoiselle]

2. I thought she had an affair with a Scottish manservant...

At least I remember watching a Judy Dench movie to that effect..."Her Majesty Mrs. Brown." She played the Queen...Billy Connelly played Mr. Brown, the servant.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. According to this article, the relationship with the Indian man

did not start until after Brown died.

[Demoiselle]

6. Oh my. Her Majesty had a fine, healthy appetite, then.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. She was only in her forties when Albert died

That's an awfully long time to be widowed.

[Demoiselle]

12. I love that some of the repressive nonsense we call "Victorian"..

...wasn't really all that "Victorian," if you take my meaning. Bless her.

[meow2u3]

17. Besides, she had 9 kids with Prince Albert

She really was fruitful.

[geardaddy]

4. MILF as in Monarch ILF?

QILF?

No, that sounds too much like sommat else.

[JCMach1]

7. QILF sounds nasty...

[geardaddy]

8. Doesn't it?

lol

[Yavin4]

5. How Queen Victoria Got Her Groove Back n/t

[eShirl]

9. "We *are* amused."

[UTUSN]

10. Minx!1 I love when Graham NORTON calls Liz-2 "that bitter GERMAN woman!1" n/t

[dimbear]

13. Quite the early feminist. Vicky, (can I call her Vicky?) summed marriage in two words:

a bad bargain.

[MilesColtrane]

14. She was just into it for the curry.

Yeahright

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. So, we can say he curried her favor???

[MilesColtrane]

16. Apparently she was insatiable.

Often, during the afterglow, she would turn to him and say, "Give me Samosa".