Just after his election to parliament in 1741, English writer Horace Walpole penned a letter to Lord Lincoln in which he commented on the development of Louisa, the 16-year-old daughter of George II. Walpole declares quite matter-of-factly that the princess’ large breasts might prove a temptation for the widowed king:

“Princess Louisa is grown so fat and, like the [late] queen, has such a monstrous pair of flummey bubbies that I really think it indecent for her to live with her father…”

Princess Louisa and her “flummey bubbies” married Prince Frederick of Denmark two years after Walpole’s letter. Their eight-year marriage yielded six pregnancies, the last of which killed her.

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