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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

Picture the court of Charles II and you'll probably imagine a riot of excess, filled with drinking, games, and of course, plenty of mistresses.

The Queen by Charles's side, Catherine of Brighanza, is often obscured by this scandalous picture.

So how close can we come to the real Catherine?

Well, Sophie Shawland joined Eleanor Evans to discuss the life of this overlooked consort, from her vital political

role in the Portuguese struggle for independence, to her relationships with her royal

husband's many mistresses. I'm joined today by Sophie Shawland, whose new book, The Lost Queen,

is a biography of an often-forgotten Queen Consult, Queen Catherine at Bruganza.

Sophie, I wanted to start by asking you, what drew you to Catherine's story?

And why is it important that a book like yours is written now?

So I think I've been very drawn to Catherine as a character

since many months ago going to the National Portrait Gallery and seeing her in situ as the only queen who's kind of eclipsed by mistresses.

I actually haven't been since the new rehanging, so they may have changed it, but her portrait was there surrounded by all these other women with a label of something

like she was very uninfluential and boring. And I found that difficult to equate because

obviously she was a queen in a time when royals had a lot more power. And I knew that lots of other

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