Revealing the surprising sex life of Queen Victoria. Listen Now!

A special edition of our podcast in collaboration with History Hit’s Betwixt the Sheets.

Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams team up with author, podcaster and sex historian Kate Lister to explore Queen Victoria’s intimate personal diaries.

They reveal that she enjoyed "heavenly love and happiness" with her husband, Albert, and the "bliss of watching him shave and the joy of him helping her put on her stockings." 

Also discussed, the two enduring myths: Victoria’s ‘sex button’ by her bed that triggered automatic door locking, ensuring privacy during her nights of passion, and Prince Albert’s alleged metal appendage - you know where!

Hosts then broaden their discussion to dual sexual morality of the Victorian Age. Publicly, Victorians promoted a repressed morality, especially the middle classes, contrasting with the notorious Georgians who were more openly sexual. This Victorian attitude fuelled a seedy underworld of pornographic photography and sex work. The strangest phenomenon to arise was the advent of ‘bicycle porn’, women being photograph in their new cycling bloomers. All very shocking.

Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams

Series Producer: Ben Devlin

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini 

Executive Producer: Bella Soames 

Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams

Series Producer: Ben Devlin

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini 

Executive Producer: Bella Soames

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