S3.14 Emma of Normandy

Rex Factor

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Emma takes us from the dark days of Vikings invasions under Æthelred the Unready to the threshold of 1066. Her remarkable and dramatic life saw her twice be Queen Consort, Queen Stepmother and Queen Mother! Emma was often forced to fight to retain her power as England veered between Saxon and Danish rule, but would she do enough to come out on top and gain the Rex Factor? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On BBC A
0:02.0	I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me
0:06.0	I'm pregnant
0:08.0	judges go easy I'm pregnant women
0:10.0	I've been old my electricity that's all
0:12.0	don't think I should even be in here.
0:14.0	A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.
0:18.0	You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and
0:26.0	Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC eye player welcome to Rex Factor! This week, Member of Normandy.
0:49.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hello and Ali.
0:57.0	Hello and welcome to Rex Factor reviewing all the Queen and Prince Consorts of England from Elswith to Prince Philip.
1:05.0	Biggie today, it's ever time.
1:07.0	Yeah.
1:08.0	Um, okay, well I'm ready.
1:11.0	Good.
1:12.0	I've got my tea. Yeah, let's go.
1:13.2	Biography! So Emma was born, we don't know exactly when.
1:18.4	Norman's sources rather like the Saxons are pretty sketchy about when children are born.
1:23.0	Norman sources? Indeed because she's Emma of Normandy.
1:27.0	Of course, yeah.
1:28.0	It's likely sometime between 980 and 990, so we're guessing about 985 and she is the daughter of Richard the Fearless
1:36.4	good name and Goulaw and she is our first proper foreign consort.
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