Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story includes a scene of King George III eating pussy. However, the show comes with a disclaimer from Lady Whistledown that what is shown is fictionalised. So it falls upon us, gentle readers, to answer the crucial question: did King George III eat pussy?
We are sorry to say that there is no conclusive historical evidence either confirming or denying whether King George III ate pussy, and so we need to thoroughly investigate the surrounding circumstances to gain clues.
First, let's look into the marriage between the real George III and Queen Charlotte. In short, their marriage seemed to be a very happy one. Throughout their whole marriage, which lasted more than 50 years, George didn't take a mistress, which is a big achievement for an English king. Very few of them didn't have mistresses. George and Charlotte definitely had an active sex life together. In the course of 21 years, they had 15 children. That's quite a lot of sex.
Of course, babies aren't made by cunnilingus. We hope nobody needs to hear it, but you can't get pregnant from cunnilingus. So just because they definitely had penis-in-vagina sex at least 15 times, doesn't prove that George III ate pussy.
By most accounts, though, the couple were physically affectionate. Even decades into their marriage, George and Charlotte were seen publicly giving each other little kisses, which suggests that the intimacy between them was more than strictly for reproductive purposes. It's also worth noting that 15 children is a little excessive for securing an heir, and that Charlotte herself ended up pretty tired of spending so much time pregnant. In 1780, after the birth of her last child, Charlotte said, "I don't think a prisoner could wish more ardently for his liberty than I wish to be rid of my burden and see the end of my campaign. I would be happy if I knew this was the last time."
The next question we must ask ourselves when seeking to explore whether King George III ate pussy is this: would rug-munching even occur to a man in the 18th century?
The short answer to this is yes!!!! The Georgians knew all about cunnilingus. It's not like it was invented recently.
We'd love to show you a ton of art from George and Charlotte's lifetimes depicting men performing oral sex on women, but Tumblr would ban us. But it existed, and people were horny about the concept. Very horny.
Cunnilingus was definitely in the popular consciousness. The slang word used for it at the time was "larking". But was it something a respectable couple might engage in - such as, for our purposes, a king and queen?
Cunnilingus within a heterosexual marriage wasn't prohibited by law, or by religion. It also wasn't listed among the medicalised pathological "perversions". It might have raised some eyebrows if George III and Queen Charlotte weren't making any babies together and only engaging in oral sex, but they were doing their duty and being fruitful and multiplying.
People in the past were, overall, just people. And lots of people have sex. Lots of people eat pussy. While we cannot say for certain whether George III engaged in a bit of muff-diving, as seen on TV, there's absolutely nothing to suggest he wouldn't have done just that.
