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Woman's Hour: 'Our Greatest Queens' with Anita Rani and Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Kate Williams, Tracy Borman and Jung Chang

'Our Greatest Queens' with Anita Rani and Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Kate Williams, Tracy Borman and Jung Chang

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Our Greatest Queens, from Eleanor of Acquitaine to Liliʻuokalani, the last Queen of Hawaii

Anita Rani with Lady Antonia Fraser, Kate Williams, Tracy Borman, Jung Chang & Alison Weir on their favourite queens, and the nature of queenship in history, today and the future.

As the nation celebrates the Queen’s 70 year reign this jubilee weekend we have our own tribute to Her Majesty with a special programme to champion some of the other great Queens in history. Anita Rani brings five eminent historians together to champion their candidate including Lady Antonia Fraser on Marie Antoinette, Kate Williams on Liliʻuokalani the last Queen of Hawaii, Tracy Borman on Elizabeth I, Jung Chang on Empress Dowager Cixi from China and Alison Weir on Eleanor of Acquitaine. They consider what each brought to their reign and the nature of Queenship. What traits do all queens share including Elizabeth II ? and what impact will the changes to primogeniture mean for future British monarchs?

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson and Flora McWilliam
Studio Engineer: Duncan Hannant

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