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“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”

The Russian Concubine

Jacquelyn Greigand nothing but the Truth, Books, Constantinople, How Very Dare I?, Myth and Legend, Research, The Hidden History ProjectLeave a comment

Puhlease – will someone, somewhere explain to me why Women in MS History are usually only ever categorised as a Whore or a Virgin?

Below is chapter 1 of Empress of the East.

Roxelana was (?!) a Slave and a Concubine. A Witch. A Seductress. And an Unwanted Foreign Interloper.

REALLY?

What about a good wife and mother. With a brain able to critically think and a loyalty that lasted a lifetime?????????

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