Thursday, February 28, 2019

QUEEN VICTORIA'S EMPIRE : A PBS VIDEO : THE BEBEES

PBS ORG EMPIRES/ VICTORIA

The Bebees were the Indian women who became mistresses to Englishmen during Victoria's reign and a time when the English were in India, changing the culture. 

Here at Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot we look at the reasons why women become Mistresses, and class and racial differences in certain times and places prevented women from becoming Wives. Throughout history women in love with men who cannot marry them due to differences in class, wealth, color, or other aspects of their place in life have decided to be Mistresses - the woman with the smaller house, the extramarital children - who remains in the shadows.  

Lola Montez was a wife of an army man sent to India during the Victorian era.  As I understand it, one of Princess Diana's direct line female ancestors was a woman of at least partial Indian heritage.  That means that William and Harry have a touch of India in their DNA.

The entire series is available through various YouTube postings.  
Missy

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