Heavily tattooed skin isn’t something typically associated with the upper crust. Pirates, soldiers, I don’t know, dice-throwers and the like, sure, but King George V? I’d think that the closest thing to body modification he’d endure would be mustache wax. But no, beneath the layers of gilded lapels and golden scabbards, the upper echelon of history bear lions and tigers and bears in worn blacks and blues just the same as folks from the modern day. — Read the rest
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