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Sarah Gristwood Interview
Sarah Ewen
29/06/2017
Best-selling Tudor biographer, Sarah Gristwood chats to us about her time at the Festival.
CVHF 2017: Sarah Gristwood from Chalke Valley History Trust on Vimeo.
10 Facts About The 16th Century ‘Game of Queens’
The Game of Queens was played out in deadly earnest. But that’s not to say that we - like these sixteenth-century women themselves - can’t have a little fun along the way! Here’s ten facts I found in my research that particularly struck me:
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Game of Queens
The sixteenth century saw an explosion of female rule. Large swathes of Europe - France, England, and the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, to say nothing of Hungary and Scotland - were at one time or another controlled by a woman, whether as regent, or as reigning queen or a female regent.
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