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During Victorian age in the United Kingdom as in other empires, the bourgeoise developed their own social codes of conduct and personal
entertainment, in place of the courts dictating social behaviour. Empress Elisabeth of Austria was the world's most beautiful woman, but also the first known anorexic,
always preoccupied with the shape of her body and obsessed with her appearance. She hated to dine at court and had the odd habit of squeezing out meat juices for
sustenance and consuming them whilst was working out in one of the first gyms at the Imperial Palace.
