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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: OT Weird Chess News. Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 19:20:18 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <100ln3j$3334m$1@dont-email.me> References: <100egqo$1f61n$3@dont-email.me> <senm2k56prbe9k95c4lsovnoi6j414f07u@4ax.com> <100g32g$1psdg$1@dont-email.me> <3e7p2k5q6ura2ecuqa7vrvm85r9l289gtl@4ax.com> <100im0l$2d4tb$1@dont-email.me> <100j23k$2f8t3$1@dont-email.me> <100lgn5$31rlv$1@dont-email.me> <100lmq6$32u87$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 01:20:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="05af239a2368f834bcab6a85bf5d8fc4"; logging-data="3247254"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19kkmFjS9ifWV1QJU3v5YFX" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GZhgQPw1t4W57j6kmGlaH73HBxY= X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250521-10, 5/21/2025), Outbound message In-Reply-To: <100lmq6$32u87$1@dont-email.me> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Graham wrote: > On 21/05/2025 22:30, William Hyde wrote: >> Graham wrote: > >>> Or they could ask Anne's daughter Elizabeth or stepdaughter Mary. >> >> Eleanor of Aquitaine was cited, though she died more than a century >> before the change. Might as well cite Empress Maud or Theodora. > > As far as I can tell none of the others were generally accepted as > reigning monarchs in their own right. This, again as far as I can tell, > was a new thing for England at that point. That's true, and this of course is what got John Knox's knickers so thoroughly in a twist - though Maud ruled at least part of the country and claimed the whole thing. But female rulers, while scarce in Europe, were not unknown. William Hyde