In 1854, Effie Gray was legally cleared of any wrongdoing in her own marriage — after being forced to prove it with an intimate medical exam her husband never had to take.
Queen Victoria still barred her from court for 42 years.
The court’s verdict, or the crown’s — which mattered?
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