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Sophie Watson

Letters Queen Victoria Wrote while Tipsy For Sale

(Hansons via SWNS)

A fascinating haul of royal letters reveals that Queen Victoria may have been one of the first people in the world to use drunken ‘textspeak.’

The British monarch often penned letters while tipsy and preferred using shorthand versions of words – including the letter ‘q’ for queen.

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