Emily Murdoch Perkins - The Queens Who Could Have Been

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🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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As an introduction to our series on the nearly monarchs, we speak to Emily Perkins about her book Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been, which looks at the queens who could have ruled if first-born daughters had been prioritised in the succession. Emily Murdoch Perkins’ book Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been is available in all good bookshops, but if you want the gold foil shiny hardback, that’s a limited edition until June 2026, so grab it while you can! You can find out more about Emily at www.emilymurdochperkins.com Sign up for lots of bonus content, including an ad-free version of the main podcast and over 450 additional bonus podcasts:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/rexfactor⁠⁠ You can now watch the podcast either on Spotify or on YouTube via the link below: https://youtu.be/l3PDsRAObME "(00:00:00) Introduction" "(00:02:48) Introducing Emily" "(00:03:30) Book Overview" "(00:10:18) Æthelflæd Lady of the Mercians" "(00:19:53) Marie of Blois" "(00:27:10) Margaret Tudor" "(00:43:37) Eleanor of Woodstock" "(00:48:38) Anne, Princess of Orange" "(00:51:57) Princess Vicky" "(01:01:17) Outro" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup welcome to Rex factor this week This week, Emily Murdoch Perkins, Regina, the Queens who could have been, with your hosts, Graham Duke and Ali Hood.
0:54.9	Hello, hello, and welcome to Rep. Graham Duke and Ali Hood. Hello. Hello.
0:57.0	And welcome to Rex Factor, where we are reviewing all the nearly monarchs of England, from Ethelwald to Albert Victor, the men who could or should have become a king but for the intervention of fate.
1:08.3	Now, this point in the podcast, last time we released our introduction episode to series
1:14.5	four.
1:15.5	What?
1:16.2	I'm having to give this rally because this is all a little bit out of sequence in
1:19.6	the recording.
1:20.5	The last episode we've released was the series four introduction, where we talked about
1:24.3	what we're going to do in the series.
1:25.9	And before we get on to Ethelwald next next time, we are speaking to Emily Murdoch Perkins
1:32.3	about her book, Regina, the Queen's Who Could Have Been, which as we'll see when we talk to
1:37.3	has got a very rexy outlook in its theme, and it feels quite pertinent to this series because
1:42.3	it's all about daughters who, but for
1:45.8	the successional focusing on sons and kings, would have been the monarch.
1:51.5	So I thought as a kind of introduction to series four, in the way that we spoke to Dr.
1:56.8	Emma at the start of series three, we're going to speak to Emily about daughters who could have been queen, the counterfactual
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