【BBC英国的那些女王们】伊莎贝拉与玛格丽特29
1308年，年仅12岁的法兰西公主伊莎贝拉嫁给了英格兰国王，成为英格兰王后。一个世纪之后，另一个年轻的法兰西女孩儿，安茹的玛格丽特，步了她的后尘。两个女人都在不知情的情况下，被卷入了混乱暴力的英格兰战争；这两个女人，都在不得已的情况下，走出幕后，力挽狂澜，控制了最终的王权。伊莎贝拉被指控谋杀，而玛格丽特的野心足以摧毁一切。其实，她们的坚持已见和毫不动摇，这些素质在男人身上就会显得正常无比，而如果是女人表现出这些素质，就会被认为是不近人情，甚至是荒谬变态的！❤ HINTS:
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201311/201311131142439487712.mp3Her son might have acted against her because of the way she'd ruled, but Isabella was still his mother. She had to surrender her vast estates, but Edward gave her an income of £3,000 a year. She could no longer intervene in politics but she would have a sumptuous, if compulsory, retirement.
Isabella had an extraordinary life. She showed, for a brief moment, that female leadership could represent the legitimacy of the Crown forcefully enough to depose an anointed King. But the exercise of power by a woman turned out to be a different matter, and particularly a woman like Isabella, who enriched herself rather than nurturing her people. In retrospect, the death of her husband came to define Isabella not as the saviour of England, but, in the words of the poet Thomas Gray, as the "She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs "That tears the bowels of thy mangled mate".他的儿子也许会因为她统治的方式不当来反抗她，但伊莎贝拉仍旧是他的母亲。她不得不交还她拥有的大量土地。不过爱德华每年赐给她1000英镑的收入，她再也无法干预政治。但她可以有个奢华安逸的万年。
伊莎贝拉的一生精彩非凡。她向人们证明，在短时间内，女性统治者可以代表王权的合法性，甚至有权利罢黜一名受膏的君王。不过，女人掌权最终被证明完全是另一码事儿，特别是 像伊莎贝拉这样的女人，她更在意的是使自己更富有，而不是反哺她的人民。回顾始末，她丈夫的死没能让伊莎贝拉成为英格兰的救世主。但在诗人托马斯·格雷的诗中，他这样描述她“法兰西的母狼，长着无情的爪牙，只为伴侣的惨死留了几滴鳄鱼眼泪。”
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