England's Queens

England's Queens
By:Elizabeth Norton
Published on 2012 by Amberley Pub Plc

Nearly eighty women have sat on the throne of England, either as queen regnant or queen consort. The primary role of the queen over the ages was to provide an heir. Catherine of Aragon found this to her cost, divorced by Henry VIII for failing to produce a healthy son. Anne Boleyn was executed shortly afterwards for the same reason. The birth of an heir was also a route to power for a queen and Eleanor of Aquitaine became the most powerful woman in Europe during the reigns of her sons. Emma of Normandy was so desperate to be queen mother that she manipulated her three sons in an attempt to ensure that at least one would ascend to the throne. Two succeeded and became kings in turn with their mother as a leading advisor. Strong relationships could also develop between the queens and their husbands. Edward VIII even abandoned his throne when forced to choose between the crown and his lover, Wallis Simpson. Not all marriages were happy and queens such as Isabella of France and Catherine Howard took lovers as a form of escape. The unhappy Sophia Dorothea of Celle was imprisoned for over thirty years by her husband George I when her affair was discovered. Her lover, Count von Konigsmarck, was murdered. Some queens were able to break away from this control. Queen Victoria spent her childhood secluded with her overprotective mother, even sharing the same bedroom until the day when she was proclaimed queen and finally freed herself from her mother's control. For the first time, the voice of each individual queen can be heard, charting the course of English queenship through nearly two thousand years of history. Each played her own part in shaping what the role of queen would become and it developed through the lives and actions of each of the women in turn.

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