3: Jane, Mary and Elizabeth | She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens

Duration: 58'46''

Synopsis

Helen Castor explores the lives of the Tudor queens Jane, Mary and Elizabeth, and how each struggled with wearing a crown that was made for a male head.

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