【BBC英国的那些女王们】玛蒂尔达和埃莉诺3
800年前，玛蒂尔达差点儿就依靠自己的顺位继承权成为英格兰历史上第一位女王！玛蒂尔达如何抵达了权力的巅峰，却又功亏一篑，与王位失之交臂？她的儿媳阿基坦的埃莉诺（法王路易七世之妻，后嫁英王亨利二世）同样是一个令人生畏的强悍女性。虽然埃莉诺以中世纪的古典骑士之爱被后人所铭记，但是，在她漫长的一生中，她先后嫁了两个国王，唯一的后果就是引起了一场叛乱...她最终在70高龄问鼎权力之巅！
❤ HINTS:
Westminster
Queen of England
Matilda
Henry I
Conqueror
Normandy
英式拼法，以音频内容为准
http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201307/201307311158229776311.mp3On the 24th of June 1141, a 39-year-old woman sat down here at Westminster to a sumptuous banquet. It was a feast to celebrate her planned coronation as Queen of England. Matilda, it seemed, was about to become the first woman to rule England in her own right.
Matilda was the daughter of Henry I and granddaughter of William the Conqueror, but you won't find her on the role-call of English monarchs. This faint manuscript image is the only contemporary picture of her that survives. Her attempt to claim the crown was to throw the country into almost 20 years of catastrophic civil war. Matilda herself has gone down in history as a domineering and destructive woman, perceived by men as a she-wolf simply because she dared to challenge the assumption that only a man could wear the English crown. And her bid for the throne began with a tragedy. The death of the male heir, her brother William. It happened not in England, but when he and their father were returning from their territory across the channel in Normandy.
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