Alright, welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie and this is episode 163.

The South grows restless.

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There's a shift in Anglo-Saxon politics that's occurring.

We've had powerful queens in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, especially in Mercia, where

queens were more powerful than most.

But something is happening in Wessex that will have an impact over the next several hundred

years.

Wessex and Queens are getting demoted.

Women on the throne, or next to it, were no longer being referred to as queens in Wessex.

They were merely ladies, or the king's wife.

But why did that shift happen?

Well, we're given a story by Alfred the Great's personal biographer, a Welsh

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