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1953, a coronation fit for a king 1953 |
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but it's a young queen |
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who is about to be crowned |
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And the crowd roars its approval |
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The fact that she's a woman attracts no comment |
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and she will go on to reign over us for six decades |
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But England's queens haven't always been greeted with such adoration |
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and throughout our history |
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women and power have made an uneasy combination |
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800 years earlier 800 |
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another female heir to the throne came to Westminster for her coronation |
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She wasn't met by cheering crowds |
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Instead, she was chased away from the capital by an angry mob |
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Her name was Matilda |
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the first woman to make a claim to the English crown in her own right |
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But 800 years ago, power was inescapably male |
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There was no question in the medieval world |
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men ruled and women didn't |
