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Joanna of Naples (Ann's Version)
Apr 02 2025 • 77 mins
Joanna of Naples (1326-1382) was Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily for thirty action-packed and highly scandilicious years. This story has it all: kidnappings! Revenge murders! Evil popes! Evil husbands! Being trapped in an iron cage for fourteen years! The black plague!
References:
Queens of Infamy: Joanna of Naples by Anne Theriault on Longreads
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone
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Canadian Heritage Minute(s): Anahareo aka Gertrude Bernard
Mar 28 2025 • 38 mins
Anahareo, also known as Gertrude Bernard, was a Canadian writer, animal rights activist and conservationist of Algonquin and Mohawk ancestry. She also invented having a bob with bangs.
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References:
Anahareo, by Alison Wick
Anahareo (Wikipedia)
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Anne, Queen of Great Britain (Ann's Version)
Mar 26 2025 • 67 mins
Anne I (1665 – 1714), best known as the main character of the movie The Favourite, was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland and then of Great Britain and Ireland for twelve years. Her life story is a gossip buffet of rivalry, death, and resiliency. But how will she score on the scandilicious scale??
References:
Queen Anne: Politics and Passion by Anne Somerset
The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Ophelia Field
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