“Queen Victoria was Empress of half the world. She owned palaces and huge armies. Mighty sultans gave her precious jewels. But she didn’t have any underpants.”
Queen Victoria’s Underpants by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley is a cheeky new picture book all about the making of the Queen’s bloomers! It’s filled with funny illustrations and the story kept me smiling right through till the end. I especially loved the author’s note which explains how women at the beginning of the 1800s hardly even wore underpants until Queen Vic made them popular – so that women could do fun stuff like bike riding and horse riding without accidentaly showing something rude! I thought this story had a neat and interesting way of teaching a bit about Victorian history.