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Is Queen Henrietta Maria’s rotten reputation deserved?
Episode 1418

Is Queen Henrietta Maria’s rotten reputation deserved?

Leanda de Lisle traces the life of Stuart queen Henrietta Maria, interrogating the myth that she was a rotten royal consort

HistoryExtra podcast · Immediate

August 10, 202244m 55s

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Show Notes

As the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria was in the firing line of the parliamentary propaganda machine. The Stuart queen was known as the “popish brat of France”, a “whore” and “the wife who wore the britches”. But does she deserve this rotten reputation? Emily Briffett spoke to Leanda de Lisle to bust some myths surrounding the reviled queen.

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