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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1504581, member: 2844"]That only proves that the lady was likely to have spent most of her life outside Victorian Britain or countries with similar restrictions.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Elisabeth of Austria, queen and empress, cousin of Ludwig. By no means a prostitute, but a respectable woman who did not live according to Victorian values, simply because she had nothing to do with anything 'Victorian'. Most of the world didn't.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> (Not that the Austro-Hungarian court was much fun...)</p><p><img src="https://www.history.com/.image/t_share/MTU3ODc4NjAwMDM2NzIxOTkz/image-placeholder-title.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Winterhalter_Elisabeth_in_true_collours.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Elisabeth (Sissi) also smoked in public, btw. And she had a tattoo.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1504581, member: 2844"]That only proves that the lady was likely to have spent most of her life outside Victorian Britain or countries with similar restrictions.;) Elisabeth of Austria, queen and empress, cousin of Ludwig. By no means a prostitute, but a respectable woman who did not live according to Victorian values, simply because she had nothing to do with anything 'Victorian'. Most of the world didn't.:) (Not that the Austro-Hungarian court was much fun...) [IMG]https://www.history.com/.image/t_share/MTU3ODc4NjAwMDM2NzIxOTkz/image-placeholder-title.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Winterhalter_Elisabeth_in_true_collours.jpg[/IMG] Elisabeth (Sissi) also smoked in public, btw. And she had a tattoo.:D[/QUOTE]
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