BBC History - Royal Women 2016 (gnv64) torrent

BBC History - Royal Women 2016
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CONTENTS
6 Opinion: From Warrior Queens to Quiet Radicals - Tracy Borman explains how the roles of Britain’s royal women have changed over the centuries
RULING QUEENS
10 Queen Boudica: Scourge of the Roman Empire - Vanessa Collingridge tells the story of the woman who led a native Briton army
16 Mary: Queen Against the Odds - Anna Whitelock argues that, despite her dark reputation, Mary Tudor was a political pioneer
24 Elizabeth I: The Monarch Behind the Mask - Anna Whitelock looks beyond Elizabeth I’s crafted image and finds a balding, frail woman
32 Anne: Daughter and Heir - The last Stuart monarch was a popular and effective queen, says Tracy Borman
36 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Victoria? - Kate Williams explores the challenges that Victoria had to overcome to gain the throne
44 Elizabeth II: Saving the Royal Family - The current Queen has become one of Britain’s most successful monarchs, says Kate Williams
QUEENS WITHOUT THE CROWN
52 Medieval Queens - Lisa Hilton discovers that England’s medieval queens played key roles in the nation’s governance
58 Catherine of Aragon: Spain’s Virgin Queen? - Giles Tremlett dissects a controversy that dogged the end of Henry VIII’s marriage to his first wife
62 Why Did Anne Boleyn Have to Die? - Was Anne ensnared by a conspiracy, the victim of her own loose tongue, or simply guilty as charged? Suzannah Lipscomb investigates
70 A Witness to the Six Wives - Lauren Mackay reveals what one man’s writings can tell us about Henry VIII’s spouses
78 Faking Jane - Leanda de Lisle tells the tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the nine-day queen who was sent to the executioner’s block by Mary Tudor
82 Elizabeth: Cromwell’s Shadowy Queen - Simon Guerrier investigates the mysterious life of Elizabeth Cromwell, England’s first lady in the mid-17th century
86 Royal Mistresses - From passionate paramours to illegitimate children, Tracy Borman looks at some notable royal affairs down the centuries
MARRIED TO A PRINCE
92 The Vilification of Wallis Simpson - Susan Williams reveals why the woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne was savaged by Britain’s establishment
98 Diana: Rebel Princess - Sarah Gristwood recalls and analyses a tragically short life lived in the full glare of expectancy and speculation
104 Kate Middleton: A Modern Royal Woman - Prince William’s ‘commoner’ bride has transformed the royal family, catapulting it
into the 21st century, argues Sarah Gristwood
110 Momentous Royal Births - Kate Williams traces the monarchy’s insatiable quest down the centuries to produce heirs to the throne