{"id":10020,"date":"2011-12-03T20:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T01:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=10020"},"modified":"2011-12-04T13:58:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T18:58:44","slug":"bbc-unveils-sexy-portrait-of-queen-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/12\/bbc-unveils-sexy-portrait-of-queen-victoria","title":{"rendered":"BBC unveils Prince Albert’s sexy oil painting of Queen Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

An entire era is named for her \u00a0and symbolizes uptight attitudes about sensuality.<\/p>\n

But it turns out Queen Victoria may have had a behind-closed-doors side not suspected by the 19th Century public. Imperious, unapproachable, often speaking in an aloof plural first person — as in, “We are not amused” — she gave her name to the Victorian Age, during which pregnant women went into seclusion, piano legs wore trousers and doctors did not examine female patients, instead used dolls on which women demurely pointed to the area of their symptoms.<\/p>\n

However, at age 24, Her Majesty posed for a racy portrait that Windsor Castle kept behind closed doors for more than a century.<\/p>\n

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The never-before-unveiled Queen Victoria (Painting courtesy Buckingham Palace)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The portrait was painted\u00a0in 1843 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, commissioned by Victoria and given to Prince Albert, her beloved<\/p>\n

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