Age of Absolutism 2: Tudor England, 1485-1603
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Virgin Queen of England
She was pressured for years to make a diplomatic marriage, and she never did. She had flirtations with a suitor from france, the duke of anjou, but they never sealed the deal. It's possible that she may have been infertile and knew that she couldn't produce an heir. Anyway, she probably knew that if she did marry that the husband would cut dramatically into her own authority and control over her erment. So for all these reasons,. she didn't marry, and she remained supposedly, officially a virgin, right? And was referred to as the virgin queen. In some way, she presented her virginity, her unmarried state, as a sign of
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