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Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte of France's family was dethroned and executed during the French Revolution, and how did the teenage Marie react? She just kept going forward, no matter how many times her family got kicked off the French throne.

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Queen Joan I of Navarre was totally normal. She became a country's first queen-regnant at the old age of one, then ran away to France with her mother, and made an actually happy political marriage somehow. Here is the story of the first queen-regnant of Navarre.

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Blanche II of Navarre was just supposed to be another royal bride who went on to have a million kids. But then, her mother and brother died, and she found herself murdered. This is a really good story I wish we had more information about.

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Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was one of the very few women of her time to become an English noble in her own right. She could've just been an insignificant noble, but once her father, brother, and son all decided to become traitors, Margaret was obviously going to be talked about. From a little girl during the Wars of the Roses to a trusted governess of Henry VIII's daughter, Margaret certainly had a crazy life.

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Marie de Guise was a Queen of Scots who did everything. We mostly remember her for being Mary, Queen of Scots's mother, but she did a lot more than just give birth to Mary. Marie loved France, hated Scotland and was about six feet tall.

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Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and Leicster, was definitely related to Queen Elizabeth I through Anne Boleyn, and possibly related to Elizabeth through Henry VIII. But then, Lettice fell in love with someone who just happened to be the person Elizabeth was in love with, which made the next thirty years horrible. The poor woman could never catch a break.

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Welcome to Season 2! Juana la Loca was the Queen of Castile who went mad. But did she really? Turns out, it was because of a couple of horrible dudes who didn't like having her around. Get some tissues and get ready to hear the really sad story of Queen Juana the Mad.

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Happy Halloween! To celebrate my second-favorite holiday, here's an episode about Elizabeth Báthory AKA Lady Dracula, who's also known as the Blood Countess. She's in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the "most prolific female serial killer", but we can't be sure if any of this even happened. Get ready to hear a story with a lot of murder.

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Jeanne de la Motte was a French con-woman whose husband had a totally made-up title. She made sure history remembered her when she stole an ugly diamond necklace, and then jumped out a second-floor window. This story is so interesting that it's so hard to follow.

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In the 3rd century, Rome wasn't doing so well, and there was one person who happened to know just how to exploit that. This woman literally changed history by having a strong hatred for one of history's greatest empires.

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