• Project Name: Great Royal Women from History
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  Field Researcher: Demon Drawer
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  Department: History
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  Faculty: Arts
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  Start Date: 14 July 2000
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  End Date: 25 August 2000
• Sub Editor and GuidePilot: TBC

There have been many Great Royal Women from history Cleopatra in Egypt, Boadicea who fought the Roman's in England. Some have been born into the Royal familes they serve other's still have married into their possition but have served with distinction.

The project looks largely at the British Royal family and starts with a woman who was denied the title of being the First Queen of England, she was however a widow of the Holy Roman Emporer and sole surviving child of Henry I, the Empress Matilda, Lady of the English.

Then there was a woman who married into the French and English Royal family and Eleanor of Aquitaine and held sway over a large protion of Europe.

Two ladies of the House of York Margaret and Elizabeth lead us through a tubulant time in England. Whilst in Spain Juana the Mad was the heir to the unified Spanish Kingdoms of Araogon and Castille.

Three ladies then had influence around the time of the Unification of the Scottish and English thrones Marie de Guise stopped it, Marie de Medici encouraged it to develop and Queen Anne led to some major constitutional changes following her inablility to produce an heir.

More recently we see the impact that Queen Victoria had over the royal courts of Europe. Finally Mary of Teck who faced the changing Royal of women at the start of the twnetieth century by maintaining the standards of Queens.