![]() ![]() ![]() And between the 12th and the 15th centuries three more exceptional women - Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, and Margaret of Anjou - discovered, as queens consort and dowager, how much was possible if the presumptions of male rule were not confronted so explicitly. Four hundred years before Edward’s death, Matilda, daughter of Henry I and granddaughter of William the Conquerer, came tantalisingly close to securing her hold on the power of the crown. But female rule in England also had a past. In 1553, England was about to experience the ‘monstrous regiment’ - the unnatural rule - of a woman. For the first time, all the contenders for the crown were female. ![]() When Edward VI - Henry VIII’s longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. ![]()
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