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HistoryExtra podcast · 2026-06-14 · 48 min · 8,596 words

What myths do we tell about royal women?

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Your book challenges the myths and stereotypes, which have presented queens as evil, mad, or not just up to the job throughout the past. How did you choose the women to include in your book? Well, Charlotte, that was the tough question because there were so many choices. I could have written volume after volume and I was in a large battle with the publisher of my word count because it kept expanding, but I really wanted to pick out queens who have been seen as iconic of of so often of failure or success and to analyse this.

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