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A 4 page paper discussing Queen Victoria and the endless fascination with her. The writer outlines Victoria's life, including some interesting but perhaps not widely known "quirks." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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there seems to be, among writers and publishers, a seemingly unending fascination with this lady and her age (West 24). II. The Reign of Queen Victoria From the
reign of Queen Victoria through the abdication of Edward VIII and the doomed marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Britains royal family has been front-page news. In the
CD-ROM "Fourteen Weddings and a Divorce," the history of the royal family in the 20th century is charted with more than an hour of video clips, archive recordings, print cuttings,
dozens of pictures and 10,000 words of text. Designed to appeal to history buffs as well as royal watchers, little known, steamy details of the love lives of some long-gone
royals add considerable spice to the product. The antics of modern day royals pale in comparison to what some of their ancestors were up to. Queen Victorias consort, Prince Albert,
regarded in his day as a paragon of virtue, had a metal ring pierced through his penis, according to the CD-ROM. "Whether this was to increase Queen Victorias and
his own satisfaction or, in conjunction with a piece of thread tied around his thigh, to govern unscheduled erections...can best be answered by contemporary wearers of this unconventional adornment," Odyssey
said in a statement (Reaney). III. The Victorian Fascination Some feel that part of the appeal of Queen Victoria perhaps is that the Victorian era is still fairly close
in time (the queens last grandchild, Princess Alice of Albany, died in 1981), though much farther in culture and aura. According to West and others, a blend of proximity
and exoticism can be an engaging brew. In Jerrold M. Packards "Farewell in Splendor", a book which some consider a funerary history, because of the intensive concentration on the
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