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E26: The Chess Match of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici with Dr Estelle Paranque

All Things Tudor - The Podcast

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Is It a Good Thing to Kill People?

Women were really ruling the 16th century. You have these six wives who are all so formidable that we still, still love them today. The sixth musical is absolutely amazing. We have this almost this eternal love and internal interest for them. Obviously in France, you have also very strong women. And we tend to forget also like the women who are also extremely powerful as mistresses. But I think even today we can't kind of help ourselves and call her Bloody Mary, but never call Henry the second Bloody Henry.

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