{"id":2246820,"date":"2026-01-23T08:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2246820"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:40:36","slug":"victoria-had-a-secret-queen-victoria-history-art-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/victoria-had-a-secret-queen-victoria-history-art-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Had a Secret: Queen Victoria #history #art #shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K-_MA_5c06w?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Queen Victoria is often remembered as a symbol of restraint and dignity \u2014 but her private habits told a different story.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, Victoria was raised under the strict Kensington System: isolated, controlled, and given a bland, limited diet.<\/p>\n<p>When she became queen, she began to eat too much, and very quickly. Meals ended when the queen finished&#8230; often leaving guests hungry. This habit became known as \u201cthe gobble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was short (about 150 cm \/ 4\u203211\u2033), and historical estimates suggest that her waist grew considerably in her later years.<\/p>\n<p>Portraits and photographs, however, were carefully composed to preserve a majestic image \u2014 disguising her true proportions and reinforcing royal authority.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa8 Artworks used:<br \/>\nPublic domain portraits of Queen Victoria from historical collections.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc9a If you enjoy stories where history, psychology, and the human body meet, feel free to like and subscribe.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K-_MA_5c06w\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Victoria is often remembered as a symbol of restraint and dignity \u2014 but her private habits told a different story. As a child, Victoria was raised under the strict Kensington System: isolated, controlled, and given a bland, limited diet. When she became queen, she began to eat too much, and very quickly. Meals ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2246821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769157634_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246822,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246820\/revisions\/2246822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}