Do you see an essential difference between the way of governing of a sovereign and a sovereign in the past centuries?
There is above all a relationship to power - to its conquest as well as to its preservation - which is not the same.
First of all because, for centuries, women who have exercised executive functions have often done so by default.
In the exercise of a regency or to compensate for a lack of male heir, concerning queens.
Powerful women have thus rarely been the first choice, the obvious solution.
Maria Theresa of Austria, one of the most powerful women of the 18th century, was not really destined to reign: she was forced to do so because her parents did not have a male heir after the death of her oldest brother.
Elizabeth II accedes to the throne and succeeds, at the age of 25, her father, George VI, because her uncle abdicated, preferring the love of an American to the weight of the crown.
In France,
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