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Matilda, Daughter of Henry II: Sent to Saxony at Eleven
She was eleven years old when they sent her to Saxony to marry a thirty-eight-year-old duke. Her father was Henry II of England. She was just a daughter, nobody asked her.
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Queen Anne: Seventeen Pregnancies and the End of the Stuarts
She was pregnant seventeen times. She buried every child. History calls her the last Stuart queen, the first Queen of Great Britain, the monarch who presided over the birth of a nation. She was also a woman who ran out of children before she ran out of grief, and the nation she built died with her, and by the end she had lost almost everything a person can lose and was still required to be a queen.
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Sophia Dorothea of Celle: Thirty-Two Years in Ahlden Castle
His wife had an affair and was imprisoned for thirty-two years. In 1714 he became King of Great Britain. He kept a mistress throughout their marriage without consequence. His mistress claimed the titles and wealth of a kingdom while his wife remained locked inside a castle she was not permitted to leave.
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Cecily Neville: The Mother Who Outlived Her Sons and Their Dynasty
Cecily was the youngest of her father's twenty-two children and would give birth to twelve of her own. Thirty-three years after giving birth to her youngest son, she had outlived her husband, all her sons, and the dynasty they had built.
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Thomas Boleyn After the Fall: The Privy Seal Taken, 29 June 1536
His son was executed on Tower Hill. His daughter was executed two days later. She had been queen. On the twenty-ninth of June 1536 the king's men came for the seal.
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George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence: The Prince Who Was Not the King
He was a prince of the blood in a dynasty that had no use for princes of the blood who were not the king. His brother wore the crown. He carried the blood. He spent his entire life trying to close the distance between those two facts. He never came close.