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Okay, so I need to tell you about something that blew my mind when I started digging into it.

It's one of these things where you realize that the whole story that you thought you knew was actually way more complicated.

And it's actually way more interesting than what you thought you knew.

So we talk a lot about how hard it was to be a woman in Tudor, England.

We talk about it on this channel.

We talk a lot about it in society.

And yes, absolutely, the deck was totally stacked. The moment a woman

got married, she basically ceased to exist legally, like not even metaphorically, actually

legally. She became what the law called a femme covert, which is Norman French for

covered woman. Her entire legal identity got absorbed into

her husband. She was covered by him. So she couldn't sign contracts. She couldn't sue anybody.

She couldn't own her own property separate from her husband. She couldn't even make a will without

his permission. One legal scholar described marriage as two becoming one and the one was the

husband, which is, you know, kind of bleak. But here's the thing that nobody tells you in the standard

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