Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach 4:45 p.m., September 16, 2021
Nowadays, tattooing is very fashionable in all circles.
But until the end of the 19th century, he was a social marker.
The convicts, sailors, prostitutes or women in love were tattooed.
The tattoo was almost exclusively the sign of marginality.
At the end of the 19th century, the English turned upside down practices and received ideas and made tattooing the absolute "must have" of the British gentry. The pioneers in this area? King Edward VII and his son The Duke of York, future King of England under the name of George V. During a long journey around the world, he was tattooed in Yokohama by the most famous of Japanese tattooists. The whole crew follows… and the English aristocracy too!
So, by getting 4 tattoos, including a large tiger on the left shoulder, Amélia Windsor, cousin of princes William and Harry, 26th on the list of succession to the throne of England, certainly defied royal protocol, but all well considered, it has finally only reconnected with an ancestral tradition, which perhaps some English themselves have forgotten.