As someone who studies kingship and the idea of rulers to my fellow scholars who also study this stuff: why this incessant and persistent twee woobification of kings and queens?
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This is an honest question. I think that you can have a favourite ruler inasmuch as the one you find the most interesting. But I do not understand this attitude towards people of immense privilege whose social class was entirely arbitrary.
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And based on perpetuating the false ideology that certain people have the right to rule, and the very real consequence of murder and war to achieve power.
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Why this constant perspective of stanning queens? Eleanor of Aquitane would not be your friend or mine.
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Replying to @MsSiennaCharles
And they shouldn’t. No one should be deified.
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