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Great Queens
The English like Queens’, said Queen Victoria’s mother-in-law, when she was born, an inauspicious little girl, far from the throne. Building on their success with their group event, ‘Scarlet Women’, four of Britain’s most widely-read female historians gather to discuss four of Great Britain’s most celebrated Queens.
In an event spanning the twelfth to the nineteenth century, the History Girls explore the lives, loves and worlds of our great Queens. The panel tell their colourful stories of survival in a man’s world, their successes, their failures – and what they had to sacrifice to survive.
Alison Weir tells the tale of Eleanor of Aquitaine, perhaps the greatest of medieval Queens. Tracy Borman reveals the story of Queen Elizabeth I and her the women in her life. Sarah Gristwood explores how Queen Elizabeth I used her relationships with men. And Kate Williams discusses the life of Queen Victoria and her struggle for the throne.
www.alisonweir.org.uk and www.tracyborman.co.uk
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