Edward III, His Queen & His Mistress
Gone Medieval
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Is There Any Evidence That She Wasn't Great?
At the time this is the height of Alice Paris's power and so in a way he's saying I remember how great we had it back when Philippa was alive. It can be really easy to look at Alice and say no actually she was absolutely amazing but then you have to go okay is there any evidence though that she wasn't very nice to people? We're only just starting to break that kind of spell that it's had on us that there are good women and there are bad women powerful women are generally bad unless they're being powerful for a man.
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