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Hello and welcome to History Tea Time. I'm Lindsay Holiday, and I'm spilling the tea on history.

The Queens of England. Of the 66 monarchs who have ruled over England since the Norman conquest,

only eight have been queens. These women have had to fight to gain

and hold power. Through most of English history, men outranked women in the line of succession,

so the only way for a woman to inherit the throne was if she had no living brothers. The wives

of kings, while called queens, are not monarchs in their own right and are referred

to as queen consorts.

Some of the female monarchs who were fortunate enough to occupy the throne were less than brilliant

rulers, but some reigned with wisdom and justice, proving a woman could do the job just

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