ScandalousHistory

Who says history is boring? Discover the scandals, the gossip, the rebels, and the rule breakers. Historian & archaeologist. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 *Find me on Bluesky*

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I’ve moved! You can find me over on the other place from now on.

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I still think about this tweet now and then ;)

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Edward VII took his sex life so seriously that he had a ‘sex chair’ specially made and installed in his favourite French brothel. It was designed so the obese royal could shag not one but two women at the same time without squishing them. Who wants to guess how it worked??

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@PaleoCameron So jealous - such beautiful creatures! I’ll never forget my dad telling me that he’d brought a ‘water otter’ home when I was a kid and then presenting me with a kettle, thinking it was hilarious… 😑

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The scandalous life of Saxon queen Eadburh involved poisonings and sex in convents. She was so naughty, the Saxons decided she’d be their last ever queen… https://t.co/kVkV0Fikmr

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Gonna be spending less time here going forward - for obvious reasons but also because it’s a ghost town. Most new followers are bots/(s)cam girls and my posts never get seen. Just a waste of time. Come find me on Bluesky, YouTube and Threads, where social media is still a thing!

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Despite the glamour, Kiki Preston’s life was ultimately an unhappy one. Her family went bankrupt, her husband and several of her friends died young (including Prince George), and Preston eventually took her own life by jumping from a window at the age of 48.

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Kiki Preston was the most hedonistic out of the Happy Valley set - which says a lot! Nicknamed ‘the girl with the silver syringe’ due to her flagrant drug use, she hooked Prince George, Duke of Kent, on coke and morphine. The pair also had a 3some with an Argentinian called Jorge

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Preston’s other lovers included the film stars Rudolph Valentino and Kay Francis. Her hold over Prince George was so strong, his brother - the future Edward VIII - forced her to leave the UK to prevent George relapsing. She allegedly had an illegitimate child with the doomed duke

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Despite being no prize himself, George IV claimed his long suffering wife, Caroline of Brunswick, was ugly, smelly and - gasp - not a virgin. He wanted a divorce, she refused. When George was told his greatest enemy was dead after Napoleon’s death, he exclaimed “Is she, by God?”

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@stuzi_pants Beware the Judderman, my dear…

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Most people have heard of the likes of Nero and Caligula but there’s one batshit crazy emperor who tends to get overlooked. He loved big d*cks, shagging Vestal Virgins, pretending to be a prostitute, and throwing deadly parties - literally https://t.co/bmuLmWYUDN

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They were big into butt trumpets which will never not be funny tbf

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Behold! A collection of rude, strange, and just downright random medieval marginalia. Medieval monks definitely had a thing for butt jokes…

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I love the idea of these guys sitting in their scriptoriums laughing to themselves as they doodled penises like naughty schoolboys.

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@thorneh Such a magical place! I visited one summer evening many years ago. Walked up to the white horse then to Wayland’s Smithy. Hardly anyone else there and a hare ran out into the path in front of us, which made it feel even more special.

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OBSESSED with this painting of a cross-dressing Lady Caroline Lamb looking hot AF. Her boyish aesthetic defied both fashion and gender expectations of the time and she would dress as a page boy to turn on her bisexual lover, Lord Byron.

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@hellohistoria Watched that on repeat when I was a kid. It’s so entertaining!

[Prof Janina Ramirez @DrJaninaRamirez]

18 bottles of wine and 26 roast chickens! Henrietta, you legend.

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@Amanda_Vickery @HarrisPreston Obsessed! 😍