Most Brutal Queens in History

" Marie Antoinette", I think was less cruel, brutal and more oblivious to the outside world. Overly Privileged certainly, evil not so much.

I don't think Marie Antoinette should be considered brutal or cruel, she's just being ignorant and unaware.

Marie was actually discredited for let them eat cake. That quote was actually about a previous Duchess when Marie herself was only 14. Marie was basically used as a scapegoat after her husband was killed.

Bathory is one of the more terrifying cases of someone who was considered as a vampire. She's even referred to as Lady Dracula. Today, she likely would've been arrested, tried as a murderer, found not guilty by reason of insanity, committed to a mental institution for life, and spent the rest of her days hopped up on Risperdal in a padded room wearing a straight jacket.

I feel quite sorry for Marie Antoinette as she couldn’t really control what her husband did, she was just there to produce babies and was a pretty sheltered privileged woman

Marie Antoinette wasn’t as bad as her story is typically told. She was a young Queen who was ignorant of the issues around her but when she became aware of reality she wanted to help. Their hatred of Austria and the French aristocracy was projected onto her.

That Queen who laughed at other's physical deformities and dwarfism really got her KARMA

Olga of Kyiv, she told the town she would end the seige if they gave her a bunch of birds from in town, mostly pigeons and sparrows, then attached the burning paper to them right before night so they would go back to their nests which were usually in the eaves of building to maximize damage. Absolute genius

Maria Antonia was not a cruel Queen! She tried desperately to help France when it finally dawned on her what was going on but they let their own hatred of Austria cloud their judgement!

" A mother watching her son's eyes be ripped out is what we call a tad brutal "

Little Detail that I kinda like: Three of the Queens mentioned here are related. Isabella of Castille was the mother of Juana la Loca and Catherine of Aragon, who gave birth to Mary 1 of England!

Joanna the mad was the older sister of Catherine of Aragon. Catherine was the first wife of Henry VIII and mother of Mary I.

Irene: it feels good torturing people Ranavolona: Am I a joke to you?

I honestly feel so sorry for Maria Eleonora. A lot of the information about her mental state and behaviour is actually exaggerated or occasionally even fabricated and I don’t believe she was insane at all. Specifically I think she had BPD and was bipolar too and the loss of her husband scarred her for life, but her letters show that she was actually a very loving mother. As for Kristina, she was only hairy at birth, it’s called lanugo, plus she was actually mistaken for a boy at first, at least according to the story she was told growing up that she repeated in her autobiography.

At 7:22 "Let them eat cake".... At the time and in that place, there was a lesser and lower form of bread. It was translated as cake.... She was saying if you can't afford expensive bread eat cheap bread. She wasn't out of touch, she didn't care!!

Everyone knows Freddie Mercury is THE most brutal queen.

As to Elisabeth I, she actually was religiously quite tolerant at first. Only after countless coups and assassination attempts to overthrow her, she came to the conclusion that she must do something against them. but not normal people just anywhere. Her halfsister Mary, however, was bloodthirsty and really did enjoy burning people at the stake. And Isabela I did actually mostly start the Spanish inquisition, making her confessor the first great inquisitor of spain; the infamous Torquemada

Because of Empress Irene, Charles the Great was crowned Emperor because the Imperial throne was vacant. Woman couldn’t rule in their own name was believed.

They take slaaaay queennnn to a whole different level

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