Dear SirQueen Victoria’s taste for nudity was confined strictly to paintings. She would been horrified that Spencer Tunick has invoked her in support of his ventures (“Artist hails queen and country for our love of nudity”, May 6). She told her second daughter that anyone who even talked about anatomy was “disgusting”. She could not avoid the prying eyes of doctors when giving birth, but thereafter she was never seen in the buff again. Her medical advisers had to guess the state of her health from the endless flow of information that she provided about it. Even so, the fact that she had a ventral hernia only became known to them when they finally examined her after her death.Yours faithfullyLord LexdenHouse of Lords