【BBC英国的那些女王们】玛蒂尔达和埃莉诺21
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:
William of Malmesbury
Matilda
Lincoln
Stephen
Bishop Henry of Winchester
全英拼法，听写以音频为主
http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201308/201308220734582904672.mp3"It was a dreadful thing," said the chronicler, William of Malmesbury, "that England, once the noblest place of peace, the peculiar habitation of tranquillity, had sunk to such wretchedness." But out of that wretchedness would come the moment of Matilda's greatest triumph. In February 1141, in vicious fighting at Lincoln, troops loyal to Matilda defeated Stephens' army and took the king prisoner. It had been five years since her father's death but now the throne was within her reach for the first time. Now Matilda knew she needed the church and the people to recognise her as Queen. She couldn't undo Stephen's coronation but she could try to supersede it with one of her own. And she found an unlikely ally in the man who had orchestrated Stephen's coronation, his own brother, Bishop Henry of Winchester.
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