{"id":31241,"date":"2019-04-08T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T09:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=31241"},"modified":"2019-04-10T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:45:46","slug":"a-to-z-of-historical-blunders-episode-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=31241","title":{"rendered":"A to Z of Historical Blunders: Episode 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fa-to-z-of-historical-blunders-the-questionable-majesty-of-queenship%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The questionable majesty of queenship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the A to Z of Historical Blunders, the show that reminds us about the dangers of history repeating itself.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about queenship throughout history is that it was normally seen as a perversion of the perceived order, an unjust inheritance as it were, by most men you\u2019d care to ask, especially those in power. Primogeniture was the main vehicle of royal succession; the only time women came into the mix was when it was politically expedient, and even then, the understanding was that it would be a short-lived affair until that queen produced a male heir. We all know the trouble Henry VIII had producing a male heir \u2013 \u201cTo six wives he was wedded. One died, one survived, two divorced and two beheaded.<\/p>\n<p>At the height of the Viking onslaughts, Aethelflaed was the daughter of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and the Anglo Saxons. At sixteen she married Aethelred, Lord of Mercia; hence her title, Lady of Mercia.<\/p>\n<p>Some two hundred and fifty years after Aethelflaed, the Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I and grand-daughter of William the Conquerer, would also suffer the fate of being diminished by the chroniclers. Her empress moniker came from her marriage to Emperor Heinrich V of Germany to whom she was betrothed at eight-years-old; she kept it all her life despite being widowed at twenty-three, her role as Empress dying with Henry. If she had had a son and heir, she could have ruled Germany as regent until he came of age.<\/p>\n<p>Guests this week are Pauline Hall and Margaret Hayward.<\/p>\n<p>The article on which this episode is based can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldfilibuster.com\/the-questionable-majesty-of-queenship.html\">read here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=31000\">Previous Episode Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The questionable majesty of queenship Welcome to the A to Z of Historical Blunders, the show that reminds us about the dangers of history repeating itself. The funny thing about queenship throughout history is that it was normally seen as a perversion of the perceived order, an unjust inheritance as it were, by most men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10362],"tags":[13863,13864,10363,13869,13866,13867,13865,11330,13860,13861,13862,13868],"class_list":["post-31241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-to-z-of-historical-blunders","tag-aethelflaed","tag-alfred-the-great","tag-berni-dwan","tag-emperor-heinrich-v-of-germany","tag-empress-matilda","tag-henry-i","tag-king-of-wessex","tag-margaret-hayward","tag-pauline-hall","tag-queens","tag-queenship","tag-william-the-conquerer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31242,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241\/revisions\/31242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}