Medieval Leaders and Queens: Aethelfled, Hildegard & Jadwiga.
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Are You a Young Princess of Wessex?
She would have been a child when Alfred is driven out of his capital. Do we know if that affected her? Would she have witnessed that? As you say, she was living on the run. Is there any record in her barographies about how that might have changed the course of her life and attitudes? We don't have direct references to how it affected her. She's not growing up in the comforts of a grand court. The education she later goes on to get is a result of her father being victorious. But actually her early years, I think, would have been really disruptive and uncomfortable.
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