Game of Queens: Women Who Changed European History
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Game of Queens: Women Who Changed European History
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"In the summer of 1513, a girl appeared at the court of Margaret of Austria, the daughter of a courtier trained to understand a dangerous palace dance. She knew that the best defense for a girl was her intelligence, that the family's wealth could change at the whim of the king, and that a great game of chess was being played out on the European political stage, in which even she could play a role. No one, of course, had any idea how significant that role would be." (Sarah Gristwood) Anne Boleyn and Margaret of Austria, at whose court she served and was brought up. Louisa of Savoy and her daughter, one of the first French writers, Margaret of Navarre. Christina of Denmark and Catherine de Medici, rumored to have a passion for poisons. These are just a few of the famous women who participated in, and often completely directed, sixteenth-century European politics. These amazing rulers deliberately used their status to run things differently, recognized sisterhood ties, found themselves pawns in someone else's game and used others in their own. In the chess game of European politics, it was the queen who became the key figure. The history of the sixteenth century is a gambit of queens.
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