163 – The South of Britain Grows Restless

There’s a shift that’s happening in Anglo Saxon politics that’s occurring… we’ve had powerful queens in the Anglo Saxon kingdoms (especially in Mercia, where Queens were more powerful than most).  But something is happening in Wessex that will impact around the next several hundred years.  West Saxon Queens were getting demoted.  Women on the throne, or next to it, were no longer referred to as Queens in Wessex.  They were merely Ladies or the King’s wife.   But why did that shift happen?  Wel...