Edward III, His Queen & His Mistress
Gone Medieval
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I Think It's a Part of It That She's Not a Woman at All, and I Think That's Why She'd Be a Good Candidate for the Throne
I think it does come down a lot to gender, and it's not solely gender, there were men around the king who also came off really badly from this. The fact that she is seen as greedy for doing this, it's more because she's the only woman who's doing this. If she was just a man at court who had been doing lots of deals and building up lots of land and getting some power, people probably would have been like oh he's really clever,. Alice isn't married to the king so she has all of that against her but as you say we completely overlook her achievements and her obvious abilities with this idea that she was justA mistress who got the king into
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