Description
Becoming a queen sounds like the ultimate fairy-tale dream: castles, crowns, lavish gowns, and absolute power. But for most history, the reality of being queen was very different. Forget the fairy tales. Royal women could face arranged marriages as teenagers, brutal childbirth, invasive royal traditions, poisonous cosmetics, filthy castles, and bizarre court customs that would horrify us today.
On this episode of Weird History, we uncover the shocking, disgusting, and downright bizarre reality of what it was really like to be a queen in the past, from forced marriages and public births to lead-based makeup and nobles using fireplaces as toilets, life inside a medieval palace was anything but glamorous.
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(Much like real history, this video was produced entirely by human beings.)
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