Sarah Fraser, also called Mother Fraser (died 1880) was an Australian brothel keeper.
She was the daughter of a British convict. She established a brothel in the Little Lon red light district in Melbourne in the mid 19th-century. Her brothel was the perhaps most expensive and famed brothel in Australia prior to that of
Madame Brussels, and she was referred to as the Queen of Brothels.
In 1867, when
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...
’s son
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Alfred (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 184430 July 1900) was the sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900. He was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was known as the Duke of Edinburgh from ...
visited Australia, police official Frederick Standish showed the prince to the brothel of Fraser, where he bought sex from Sarah Sarqui. This attracted great attention, and according to urban myth Fraser claimed her brothel had royal protection and had the royal banner raised above it.
References
* Barbara Minchinton,
The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth Century Melbourne'
* James Morton, Susanna Lobez,
Gangland Melbourne'
* MARGARET ARNOT,
PROSTITUTION AND THE STATE IN VICTORIA, 1890-1914'
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1880 deaths
Australian brothel owners and madams
People from Melbourne
19th-century Australian businesspeople
19th-century Australian businesswomen