Title : "King Charles and Queen Camilla... occupy three bedrooms: one shared room and an individual private boudoir each."
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"King Charles and Queen Camilla... occupy three bedrooms: one shared room and an individual private boudoir each."
"The arrangement has been hailed as a recipe for marital harmony: no recriminations about toast crumbs on the duvet or arguments over whether to invite the Jack Russell terriers aboard, and plenty of space to starfish. And it turns out that King Charles is a bedroom trendsetter. The latest YouGov sleep study reveals that one in five couples have switched to separate beds (or opted for sleep divorce, as it’s cheerily known), with women (41 per cent) more likely than men (33 per cent) to say they sleep better alone...."
From "Are you ‘sleep divorced’? Here’s why single beds are back" (London Times).
What, exactly, is a boudoir? I get it that there are 3 bedrooms, and like the idea of 3 connected rooms, which could work very well in a house to accommodate the varied sleep patterns of a married couple and also be usable as guest bedrooms, but what makes an extra bedroom into a "boudoir." That sounds exciting, but why?
I see — in the OED — that the etymology is "< French boudoir lit. ‘a place to sulk in’, < bouder to pout, sulk." Is pouting exciting? Not really, but a room designed for pouting is hilarious. Were women accused of pouting when they just wanted to be alone? Was the word (and the room) used to get distance from a family member who was depressed?
Anyway... a boudoir is "A small elegantly-furnished room, where a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive her intimate friends. Formerly sometimes applied to a man's private apartment."
The OED has a quote from the diary of the second United States President, John Adams: "In what he calls his Boudoir, a little room between his Library and Drawing Room."
Here's the whole quote — in case you wonder who "he" was. It's incredibly boring (seriously... do not read what follows... or do read it, out loud, to someone else, after you've led them to think you're about to read something delightful):
I should not omit Alderman Bridgens Nuns, and Verses. About 30 Years ago Mr. Bridgen in the Austrian Netherlands purchased a compleat Collection of the Portraits of all the orders of Nuns, in small duodecimo Prints. These he lately sent as a Present to the Hide, and Mr. Hollis has placed them in what he calls his Boudoir, a little room between his Library and Drawing Room. Mr. Bridgen carried down with him a Copy of Verses of his own Composition, to be hung up with them. The Idea is that banished from Germany by the Emperor they were taking an Asylum at the Hide, in sight of the Druid, the Portico of Athens and the verable [sic] Remains of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Carthaginian Antiquities.
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