Royal Mistresses who became Queens 

Executed not murdered

@@CaptainJackSparrowSavvy Well, being executed on trumped-up charges is tantamount to murder, isn't it?

Yup, pretty ironic.

“camilla is irrelevant to me” 😂😂 brutal

I also love the reason he claimed to want to divorce Catherine of Aragon was because he was married to his brother. Never mind that there was precedent for it throughout other houses of Europe with papal dispensation (which they did have). He was like, “It’s totally fine for me to marry a woman when I slept with her sister!” Until it wasn’t, because he also didn’t get a son from Anne.

Well Alfonso died anyway before he learned that Pedro would posthumously make her Queen. Honestly, it was better that way because you just know Pedro was ready to kill his father for the murder.

From what I heard in this video, Pedro sounded like a badass with the way he stood up for his lover. Inês had a horrible death, but she scored gold in the world of men.

Pedro set the bar very high, ngl lol 😆

I do love that story...Er, except for the Beheading in front of her children but how he gave her the Honors due to her that she was robbed of in life but in death. It's a beautiful love story. I'm surprised a film has not been made of it

@Bitch Yep..and He legitimized their children as well giving them their Honors of Princes and a Princess.

Exactly she was literally just a child. Poor girl.

Not always, as in the case of Henry, he just decided he did not want his wife anymore so it makes no difference even though the start of his first marriage was good. Honestly, these men just followed their hormones in many ways. Their original wives took marriage seriously the majority of the time and had to remain faithful or else while their husbands could do whatever they wanted. The problem was that society treated having mistresses as "normal" or just something men do. That is the same attitude the now King of England had from the start. Basically other princes and kings had mistresses, so why cant he. This attitude does not work for us normal people, but for royals somehow their wives just had to grin and bare it.

I truly understand that sentiment but in those days people had to politically marry other people for alliances and increase strength so Ig in those times it was essential minus the happiness of others.

@@AerionTargaryen24 Henry VIII was not required to marry Katherine. In fact he had to get a dispensation to marry her. It was purely considered a love match.

@S B nothing wrong with a loving and very convenient match

@S B She brought a dowry that was paid in half to her marriage with Arthur. Her father then dragged his feet to pay the other half for ten years. By the time Henry VII died she was planning to return to Spain and become a nun. Henry married her shortly after becoming King. It’s debated if he ever got the remaining 100,000 from Spain as they were no longer as advantageous of a match after the death of her mother and brother in law Phillip, who took over Castille. In fact by 1514 Katherine after all of her fathers broken promises decided to "forget Spain and everything Spanish." She could do this due to having a joint coronation with Henry. It was unusual for Queens to be coronated prior to delivering their first heir during this time period, for exactly the reasons Henry would discover. His haste in marrying Katherine and making her his Queen in spite of only getting half the dowry of his brother, knowing full well that he was unlikely to ever receive the rest, which is highly debated if he ever did made it an unwise match. When Henry inherited the throne from his father we know that Katherine’s original dowry was already spent. By all contemporary accounts he married Katherine because he loved her. He could have made another alliance with far less strings attached that would have been far more beneficial financially and didn’t involve Spain that have proven to be untrustworthy and in the midst of political turmoil.

And to think 15 is the legal age in Sweden even today

​@@JuliefromNethin Texas you can marry off your child as young as 12 without them even being present. It's still a thing in many many places.

Ooh, I remember that program with Chris Hansen. They busted a lot of perverts.

​@@FantabulousFaillooks like under 16 can only marry with judges approval, but I'm sure it is abused. Looks like the law was changed recently, as it used to be only under 14 needed judges approval. That is sick.

She was a womans rights activist before the Word existed. She convinced Henry to consider his daughters for regency.

​@@schneeroseful so true. Katherine of aragon was, as well

True, but with the subject of the video Catherine Parr wasn’t Henry’s mistress. If I remember correctly Henry didn’t go after her until Catherine Howard was already executed.

@@moondivine2288 but she was still atypical for a Queen, and the reasoning given in the video had nothing to do with Henry’s marital status. And an unmarried/widowed King could have a mistress too, because kings didn’t dare marry commoners in most cases.

@@cakt1991 but Henry isn’t most kings lol. He did split from the church when he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn. Because of that Henry’s material status does count. From a book I read on his six wives, when Henry meet Catherine Parr he simply wanted a companion, so Lindsey wasn’t wrong there. Catherine at her end was in love with someone else. She and Henry got married with her being a commoner, a rich one still, not being an issue. Catherine might have started because Henry wanted a nursemaid but, she eventually became more than that. On another note Anne of Cleves was also dismissed because her marriage with Henry wasn’t consummated. Because of that Lindsey is only counting women who are having sexual relations with the king before marriage.

Catherine was a teenage girl, with no control over her own life. Definitely not a seductress. She was used and discarded

@@leonieromanes7265 I really got that from the musical Six. Her song is heartbreaking. It really gets me interested in royal consorts and mistresses in history. Makes me wonder how many royal mistresses really wanted anything to do with the royal and how many were just pressured by the men in their families to let the king or prince have their way with them and their bodies so the men could have favors. Creepy huh?

She was a child. Henry was a cradle robber

I've never heard that maybe it's in other parts of Portugal

I’m Portuguese and I’ve never heard that saying. I think it’s a Brazilian saying.

Sou brasileiro e nunca ouvi esse ditado

@@Mariana-ed2kt it’s an old saying so no young people use this anymore, but my grandmothers still use it 😂

Never heard that … not even from my grandparents

Diana said she wished to be Queen of Hearts.

@@michaelflick1177When she died, a lot of the floral tributes left outside the palace featured Queen of Hearts playing cards.

Agreed.

@@michaelflick1177 A bit difficult to do when one has been dead for 25 years

​@Michael Flick and she is, camilla is nothing but a royal pretender

I used to absolutely idolize E1, until I finally wrapped my head around her behavior in some cases, but there is absolutely no denying that she is one of the most impactful humans who ever lived. She had terrible taste in men tho. I know feel like the "Virgin Queen" business was actually marketing...

Elizabeth was an awful human, she’s nothing to brag about. Insecure and vengeful. One of her favorite past times was torturing animals. She enjoyed bear baiting. She liked to have bears hunted down, then caught tied up with chains then they released the dogs and she watched while the dogs tore the animals to pieces and cried out in pain. Sorry but anyone who can sit and watch that with pleasure is a POS. I don’t think she’s a person to brag about. Just a shitty as her father. If you don’t believe me you’re free to look it up. People who hurt children and animals have no heart!

@@montananerd8244most definitely marketing, but so what if kings can do it queens can too. 😂

Unfortunately Camilla was not a virgin so wasn't suitable at the time when Charles wanted to marry her. Diana was a sacrificial lamb, had the heir and spare, and unfortunately was left to her own devices so naturally looked for love elsewhere. Charles had hooked up with Camilla again.

So true.. and she would probably still be alive then too.

Omg..your so witty..that was good…LMHO…yes, she has spoken.

Well when your head comes off your crown tends to hit the floor as well

Lol yes. Except she wasn't ever a real queen

@@kaveriajake2212 what? She was queen consort from 1533 to 1536. Not very long but she was the queen albeit disputed

@@helend7542 she was a queen consort

@@helend7542 not a queen . A queen CONSORT

Well, not murdered, executed

Her great grandma was a kings side ho his fav one . I guess she wanted to be like her granny she one upped her didnt she

What happened to Katherine of aragon, the woman Henry trusted, feared, loved and admired above anyone, was 10000x sadder

@@kaveriajake2212 She was exiled to a castle, but she was never executed. and he started to hate her, so no its not 10000x sadder,

Maybe that can be a continuous tradition. It’s funny that I just now realized both the mistress and the name Charles have to do with losing their heads in England. Prophetic, or happy coincidence??

Peerless a little messed up.

Agreed!

I would go with the mistress of The first Bourbon King, she was engaged to the king already but she died on childbirth plus just 10 years later her lover became the king of France because he is the only male direct descendant and take her former MIL cousin to be his bride but I do wonder would she be accepted as a consort since her lover was upgraded from a king of a obscure country to the king of one of the coutries

I just watched. Four of them were Henry VIII"s.

She was also a spy during WWI. She was an amazing woman! She moved to France because of the racism in the US and she did great there! I believe she was even part of the group of Americans that lived in Paris like Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and other artists and such.

@@kfemme68 yes, she was!

Yes! I'd love a video on her!

I would guess it’s because a concubine in an Eastern court is very different culturally than a mistress in a Western one. All concubines are technically considered wives to an extent, even if they aren’t afforded equal status. Whereas Western countries practice monogamy, so mistresses have a certain illicitness and baggage they don’t in the East.

​@@vhoughton3153 She already did a video on her.

Maybe because she is a Regnant rather than a consort. All the women in the video are consorts. 🤔

​​​@@cakt1991yes, if the empress cannot give birth to a son, sons of these concubines can access to the throne. And if the son of a concubine is more talent than son of the empress, the emperor can give the throne to son of concubine as well. All the children of concubines are also considered legitimate. Concubines are legal minor wife of the emperor, they have their own title (but empress is the most powerful in harem). Children of concubines also have title prince/princess

Dusties murder women for saying no, while married in 2024... I cannot imagine how Anne could say no.. How do you say no to a King... She made a lot of excuses and he just kept at it.

@@ayandasperanza530 What or who is a "Dusty"?

There's a video Lindsay did about Wallis Simpson here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EZFFJWEKUAk.html

I agree’n

The Abdication over Wallis likely saved Britain in WW2, because Edward was more of a Nazi sympathizer than most knew at the time. As was she.

There's actually a video on wallis Simpson

Maybe a part of Galicia is now in Portugal?

Came just to say this, but you where faster.

@@stella-kc7tpShe was born in Limia, which is part of modern Galicia

She wasn’t an almost queen though. She was married to someone far down the line of succession. The category I would use for her would be royal wives that weren’t queens. I’d like to see that kind of video too, I love her story. I think she would’ve made a good queen, though if she were in the right position. Her and her husband seem like they would make a good partnership, and I think he would’ve made a good king.

actually there are often errors

@@garyrowden7150 I found only minor ones and not that often.

@@reniasva but i'm pedantic and facts matter when we talk about history

@@garyrowden7150 Great.

I'm swedish and I have never heard about it before

Ain't no way 💀💀💀

@@Cryingbutvibing I did. Thank god I’m not married or else it would be a sign 😆

I cannot 💀

You know Snow White wasn't a real person, right??? Disney can make up his own rules about inheritance...