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clear patria has to be one of the most iconic and by all accounts charismatic women in the whole of history. So to witness her wedding as an 18-year-old woman must have been quite a sight.

Her wedding too, and let me just check my notes here, her 10-year-old brother.

I don't know if they had Hello magazine around at the time but I guess this would have been on the front pages.

Her brother, oh my God.

Sibling rivalries are fractious at the best of times because you even imagine having to marry your sibling. My God, it doesn't even

bear thinking about. I wouldn't have thought that this was ideal grounds for a successful marriage,

not by any stretch of the imagination. And even by its own measures of fortifying the Ptolemaic dynasty,

it's one that ended in civil war and murder. As first marriages go, Cleo was off to a flying start.

But if you were thinking that Mary and your brother

would have been the most bat-crap crazy thing

that this woman would do, then you would be sorely wrong.

She was only just getting going.

Let's find out. What are you a quality man?

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