Hey everybody, it's Mick Sullivan, and welcome to The Past and the Curious.

This is episode 10 of The Underwear Chronicles.

If you don't want to hear me talk about the underwear book, then stop listening now.

Because I wrote a book about underwear, people, famous people, people from history, people

who should be famous.

And the moments that their underwear kind of made history alongside them.

So that book is going to be out late in the year, probably hopefully November 2022.

So if you're listening before that, then get excited about the book.

If you're listening after that, then the book's probably available, so you should maybe

look for it.

I don't know.

This episode is about Queen Victoria, who is one of the most important, most impactful

monarchs of Great Britain and the British Empire.

And she had a thing for drawers.

She liked to wear drawers.

And there was a boy who broke into the palace a lot, and he took some.

Imagine being awoken by your mother in the dim darkness of an early morning.

With no explanation and no chance to cover your wrinkled dressing gown, you're taken

to a room full of prim and proper men with titles like Lord Cunningham and Archbishop

of Canterbury.

Blinking your groggy eyes, wearing only your underclothes, and wondering if you're dreaming,

you hear the most important news of your life.

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