Queen Anne legs

[lankeela]

Did Queen Anne actually have bowed legs, or is it just a name for the furniture style popular around her time?

[LoftyLottie]

This question has made me laugh and cheered me up!! Thank you. I can't wait for the answers ;o)

[mike11111]

It is the furniture. Many jokes have been made since around this topic.

[ChuckFickens]

LOL, and she had little balls on the end of her legs instead of feet :)

Queen Anne style furniture (and architecture) is named after the period, not a physical feature of Queen Anne.

[lankeela]

Well I did wonder, lol.

[mike11111]

There is a statue of Queen Anne outside St Paul's cathedral, where she is depicted looking away from the church and across the road, where there used to be a gin palace.
She was well known for her love of the bottle, so when the statue was first erected some wag wrote:

Brandy Nan, Brandy Nan, left in the lurch.
Face to the gin shop and back to the church.

[wildwood]

Oh lankeela, I would have thought you'd be more interested in the chippendale epoch!

[Joe_Blobb]

Think it may have something to do with the fact that she was the most prolific royal in the production of babies !

[askyourgran]

And she had castors for feet.