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Queens of England Podcast

2 - What is a Mediaeval Queen?

Queens of England Podcast

James Boulton

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.8637 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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What did it mean to be a queen in Mediaeval England? This seems at first to be a really easy question to answer: you had to marry a King.  Simple right?  But when you dig deeper this turns out to be a very superficial answer because it doesn't really answer the fundamental aspect of the question.   

In this episode we discover the traits and qualities that a queen was supposed to have in Mediaeval England, and examine what kinds of power they could wield


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Hello and welcome to the Queens of England podcast.

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Episode two, what did it mean to be a medieval queen?

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Yeah. What did it mean to be a queen in medieval England?

1:41.3

This seems at first be a really easy question to answer. You had to marry a king. Simple, right?

1:45.5

But when you dig a little deeper, this turns out to be a very superficial answer, because it doesn't really answer the fundamental aspect of the question. Now, I could

1:51.6

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