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Article: Queens and Empresses
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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QUEENS AND EMPRESSES
QUEENS AND EMPRESSES.
As women situated at the top of the social hierarchy, all of the queens and empresses of the early modern era were far from sharing the same fate. Depending on the state and the period, they could live relatively lowprofile lives or
, on the contrary, have a major political role to play. Although most of these women were the wives of kings or emperors, some of them nevertheless reigned in their own names whenever the rules of succession in their state authorized this, and they then conducted themselves as the equals of kings. It is therefore important to distinguish between kings' wives, whose titles as queen derived solely from their ...
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