r/femalemonarchs

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Jusztina Szilagyi (1454-1497), second wife of Vlad the Impaler, consort of Wallachia (1476-77)

Mar 2 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ #1476-77 #1454-1497

In 1666, 15-year-old Margaret Theresa of Spain married her uncle Leopold, Holy Roman Emperor. In six years, she endured six pregnancies. Three of her four children died in infancy. When she died on March 12, 1673, aged 21, an autopsy revealed she was pregnant again.

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Wanrong (1906–1946) was the wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China. She was the titular empress consort of the former Qing dynasty from their marriage in 1922 until the exile of the imperial family in November 1924. She died in prison in June 1946; her remains were never found.

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On 26 February 1835, Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar issued an edict banning the practice of Christianity among her subjects.

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Anne of Kyiv (c. 1030–1075) as Queen of France, this Kyivan Rus princess was a beacon of sophistication

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Cleopatra's ancestry breakdown.

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Joanna of Castile (aka Joanna the Mad), Bronze Statue, Innsbruck, Austria

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Farah Pahlavi (1938–) is the former Queen and last Empress of Iran and is the widow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. As a philanthropist, she advanced the welfare of Iranian civil society through the establishment of charities, and founded Iran's Shiraz University.

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Despite her reputation as promiscuous, Catherine the Great's actual sexual behavior was normal for 18th-century European royal standards.

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Mary of Burgundy (1457 – 1482) is first wife of Maximilian of Austria and mother to Philip the Handsome. she was only child of her father Charles the Bold whose inheritance was stolen by her cousin Louis XI during War of the Burgundian Succession.

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Wu Zetian (624 AD - 705 AD): China's only female emperor

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In his 6th-century Secret History of Justinian, Procopius portrayed Justinian's wife, Theodora (a former prostitute), as a whore, and accused her of having multiple abortions. In reality, Theodora was forced to prostitute herself, and actually banned prostitution.

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Ines de Castro: Portugal's Corpse Queen

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Queen Maxima of the Netherlands (1971–) is the wife of King Willem-Alexander. Born in Argentina, Maxima has promoted social integration of immigrants, LGBTQ rights, and financial inclusion. She and Willem-Alexander have three daughters, Princesses Catharina-Amalia, Alexia, and Ariane.

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Cleopatra Selene II (40 BC–5 AD) was a Ptolemaic princess, nominal Queen of Cyrenaica (34 BC – 30 BC) and Queen of Mauretania (25 BC – 5 BC) as co-ruler alongside her husband Juba II. She was the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony.

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Zita of Bourbon-Parma (1892–1989) was the wife of Charles I, the last monarch of Austria-Hungary. She was also the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, in addition to other titles. She was declared Servant of God by Pope Benedict XVI. A devout Catholic, she raised a large family.

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Who was the first female monarch you were interested in? For me, it was Queen Ranavalona I, who ruled Madagascar from 1828 to 1861. Ranavalona was responsible for the deaths of half of the island's population.

Feb 1 ⋅

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Sophia Alekseyevna (1657–1704) was a Russian princess who ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689. She allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, to install herself during the minority of her brother Ivan V and half-brother Peter the Great.

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Catherine of Lancaster (1373 - 1416): The First Englishwoman in Spain

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Empress Masako (1963–) is Empress of Japan as the wife of Emperor Naruhito. Masako met Crown Prince Naruhito in 1986. They married in 1993 and their only child, Aiko, Princess Toshi, was born in 2001. The birth of Princess Aiko fueled the ongoing Japanese imperial succession debate.

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Although Catherine the Great is mainly remembered for her private scandals, she was also a highly intelligent woman who expanded the Russian Empire and carried out some necessary reforms.

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Tadj ol-Molouk (1986–1982) was Queen of Iran and second wife of Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941. She was the first queen in Iran after the Muslim conquest in the seventh century to have participated in public royal representation.

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Lady Chiajna of Moldavia (1525-1588), consort of Wallachia and later regent of Wallachia to her underaged son

Feb 3 ⋅

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