Most Brutal Queens in History

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  • A Queen has a responsibility to her people to conduct herself in a respectful and polite manner while governing her country but back in the day, Queens were known to be extremely brutal and unforgiving! Check out today's epic new video to meet some of the most dangerous Queens to have ever ruled!
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  • @kararay8962
    @kararay8962 Pƙed rokem +1638

    " Marie Antoinette", I think was less cruel, brutal and more oblivious to the outside world. Overly Privileged certainly, evil not so much.

    • @KS-PNW
      @KS-PNW Pƙed rokem +188

      Yeah I think it's unfair to include her here. Especially taking into account the fact that she was only 16 when she assumed the throne.
      I'll only speak for myself but I can't imagine 16 year old me would have been a good ruler either..

    • @M.Campbell-Sherwood
      @M.Campbell-Sherwood Pƙed rokem +43

      @Nooby mcpe you know that alone could have started a war with Austria? She wasn’t a French born Princess and because of that France was required to send her and her children home (well the girls anyway). Their killing her instead was an act of war against the Royal family of Austria. If her brother had wanted to push the subject he could have taken troops into France over her @ss@ination. I’ve always wondered why he didn’t do it. Did he think Austria would lose? Or maybe they’d win but with too many casualties, so to him it wasn’t worth it? I wonder if Maria-Teresa kicked his a$$ for it? Bet ‘mama’ never let him hear the end of it for that one lol đŸ˜č.

    • @he2collinator
      @he2collinator Pƙed rokem +16

      @@M.Campbell-Sherwood actually Prussia and Austria did invade France during the state of the constitutional monarchy and this was because Marie-Antoinette and Louis the 16th when situations were bad for them, sent a letter to manyi European world leaders for help but by the time the letters were reached, said European leaders, a compromise was already made for a constitutional monarchy and for a while there it seems like the revolution is done down before the letters of never mind we’re received Austria and Prussia already started planning to invade France to reinstate a absolute monarchy, but when they did it, the letters of never mind they found it unacceptable that they were OK with the constitutional monarchy so immediately invaded to try to restore the absolute dismayed, the French people angry more angry than they were before and if you really think about it, the first republic and the French revolutionaries were such a propaganda machine that is crazy to think about the fact that the leaders of the rebellion knew the truth about the French government, but were lying. The truth was the king in the queen, did not pass laws without the approval of the clergy and nobility. Actually, they couldn’t do most things without their permission, there is mini historical accounts of the French royal parliament having votes that would’ve been beneficial for the people, but on beneficial to the nobility and clergy and royalty where is the majority of the Royals and what I mean by that was the king and one very close, and the peasants now the clergy, the Royals, who voted otherwise and the nobility would have their votes be more powerful and well they would win and actually mini leaders of the French revolution were high enough class to be taught this and know about how it is working they were power-hungry people CNN cl cl cl cl cl cl cl

    • @JelleSophie
      @JelleSophie Pƙed rokem +6

      Ferdinand and Isabella I did not rule Spain. Spain was a personal union of Castile and Aragon. The unification happened with the first Bourbon King Phillips V. So Charles V was not king of Spain but of Aragon and Castile and Leon and later the Habsburgse also became King of Navarre and Portugal. It was Charles V who locked his mother away while trying to keep his grandad Ferdinand at bay who was still King of Aragon but wanted power over Castile.

    • @VictorPerez-vu1fo
      @VictorPerez-vu1fo Pƙed rokem +2

      @@JelleSophie interesting, the chocolate lied to me... Jk. I didn't know this. But yes, all the stories here have been seriously overdramatized being shown as pretty white or black matters.
      The one out of all of them that I knew was Olga's and while the slaughter of the emissaries and later the high lord's was somewhat spot on the attack on the town was a smart way to avoid a prolonged siege. She was at war and to say she had killed thousands prior makes it sound she attacked to seek revenge which by the events of the time it became a defensive counteroffensive for an oxymoron that that is.
      In other words, sure, you should read about the individuals in the video, but let's not keep to heart what they say otherwise we'll have limited sight.

  • @Epic-1224
    @Epic-1224 Pƙed rokem +954

    I don't think Marie Antoinette should be considered brutal or cruel, she's just being ignorant and unaware.

    • @he2collinator
      @he2collinator Pƙed rokem +54

      Yes, and she actually never said let them eat cake that was actually the wife of Louis the 14tH

    • @gagejones6599
      @gagejones6599 Pƙed rokem +17

      ignorance breeds evil

    • @konsextus
      @konsextus Pƙed rokem +21

      Plus, the French Revolution was never about the poor people taking over from the rich. It was about abolishing the class system that was in place in France at the time, which often had wealthy people be lower tier citizens than knights and other freeloaders.

    • @heatherjones2701
      @heatherjones2701 Pƙed rokem +31

      Correct! Marie Antoinette WASN'T cruel, evil, or corrupt at all!! She was a product of her position, and acted like the rest of the nobility at Versailles. She was also spoiled by her indulgent husband, (King Louis 16th). There's been historical accounts of some very charitable deeds that she did as well. And that she was usually very kind to people, especially servants.

    • @Nhaptenkenh
      @Nhaptenkenh Pƙed rokem +10

      Exactly. She definitely wasn't a good Queen, but she wasn't evil or cruel.

  • @josetteandres
    @josetteandres Pƙed rokem +521

    Bathory is one of the more terrifying cases of someone who was considered as a vampire. She's even referred to as Lady Dracula. Today, she likely would've been arrested, tried as a murderer, found not guilty by reason of insanity, committed to a mental institution for life, and spent the rest of her days hopped up on Risperdal in a padded room wearing a straight jacket.

    • @TheRojo387
      @TheRojo387 Pƙed rokem +10

      Hearing the word "Risperdal" makes me feel so lucky to get off the drug. It was preventing me from thinking, from organising my resources.

    • @MSeliskaZ
      @MSeliskaZ Pƙed rokem +13

      I’ve visited the castle where she spent most of her time in Slovakia and many educated people think that it’s pretty much made up stories or at least really overexaggerated. I don’t think that she was innocent but I don’t believe that she actually killed so many young women
 it sounds terrible but noble people back then used to do horrible things and no one questioned them.
      So many people were burned at the stake.. just because some powerful people accused them of doing something supernatural when they were mostly people who just had some sort of power(but more like political influence, status, knowledge..idk, it was crazy for sure😅).
      One of my close friend is fascinated by Elizabeth Bathory and she read every possible book&studied as much stuff as she could
 and she thinks that Elizabeth was innocent.. or at least didn’t do majority of the things that she was accused of.

    • @user-kj1pq6zh3x
      @user-kj1pq6zh3x Pƙed rokem +3

      @@MSeliskaZ i always thought the same. The whole blood bathing/drinking seems toĐŸ unrealistic to me, like a fantasy movie. I suspect someone made this legend up & it went viral

    • @Rassenomatjutut
      @Rassenomatjutut Pƙed rokem +1

      She even worked as a basis for Elizabeth Bartley, the main villain of Castlevania Bloodlines.

    • @ferencmansen2086
      @ferencmansen2086 Pƙed rokem

      New findings... She was probably innocent. The evidences against her are very pore. The people who were against her took her castles and money after she was arrested.

  • @fetcheth-me-a-shrubbery
    @fetcheth-me-a-shrubbery Pƙed rokem +242

    Marie was actually discredited for let them eat cake.
    That quote was actually about a previous Duchess when Marie herself was only 14. Marie was basically used as a scapegoat after her husband was killed.

    • @fabulouschild2005
      @fabulouschild2005 Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci +3

      It also somewhat came from her saying to let the people have the brioche after the palace ran out of bread to give the people

    • @GreebleClown
      @GreebleClown Pƙed měsĂ­cem +2

      @@fabulouschild2005That makes more sense, Antoinette was really into charity and personally helped poor families and handed out food. She was certainly aware of the country’s hardships and did much to help, unfortunately since she wasn’t French the revolutionaries hated her and the king was too much of a wimp to stand up to the other aristocrats and properly fix the problems that would have prevented the revolution.

  • @GEJ310
    @GEJ310 Pƙed rokem +739

    I feel quite sorry for Marie Antoinette as she couldn’t really control what her husband did, she was just there to produce babies and was a pretty sheltered privileged woman

    • @iceescape
      @iceescape Pƙed rokem +90

      Her husband was also not as bad as his predecessors. He tried to raise taxes on the nobility (who basically didn't pay any taxes) to help the country but they all refused. They were out of touch but not bad people; more the scapegoats.

    • @kah5181
      @kah5181 Pƙed rokem +1

      Her husband was a traitor when his people were out to get him he attempted to flee the country and go to Marie’s country and get an army of fight his people

    • @rosalynn5642
      @rosalynn5642 Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci +30

      ​@@iceescape both of them deserved better
      and they were young
      they were not ready to be king and queen

    • @jehoiakimelidoronila5450
      @jehoiakimelidoronila5450 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +13

      So essentially, they both got thrown as stand-ins with barely to no knowledge of running a country? Jesus. How horrible it must have been back then

    • @Ieatpaste23
      @Ieatpaste23 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +7

      @jehoiakimelidoronila5450 Not only that, but Marie was from Austria. One of the countries France hated most. It would have been like having the 1st Lady of the US be a Russian during the Cold War. She and her husband were completely set up for failure. Especially when you learn it was the King before who bankrupted the country.

  • @romella_karmey
    @romella_karmey Pƙed rokem +1086

    That Queen who laughed at other's physical deformities and dwarfism really got her KARMA

    • @billyjean8057
      @billyjean8057 Pƙed rokem +204

      More her daughter paid for her mothers sins which is sad

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Pƙed rokem +78

      @@billyjean8057 more like a terrible coincidence for her daughter

    • @davidguo9923
      @davidguo9923 Pƙed rokem +13

      True

    • @laceylovley6535
      @laceylovley6535 Pƙed rokem +33

      Karma. I believe in karma. You treat someone poorly you get what you deserve thrown back at you.

    • @freepalestinanow
      @freepalestinanow Pƙed rokem +6

      Do you know Valide Sultan? Greatest queen!

  • @ivyrose779
    @ivyrose779 Pƙed rokem +201

    Marie Antoinette wasn’t as bad as her story is typically told. She was a young Queen who was ignorant of the issues around her but when she became aware of reality she wanted to help. Their hatred of Austria and the French aristocracy was projected onto her.

  • @Thanatos-zo2hg
    @Thanatos-zo2hg Pƙed rokem +343

    Olga of Kyiv, she told the town she would end the seige if they gave her a bunch of birds from in town, mostly pigeons and sparrows, then attached the burning paper to them right before night so they would go back to their nests which were usually in the eaves of building to maximize damage. Absolute genius

    • @KS-PNW
      @KS-PNW Pƙed rokem +54

      To be fair they had murdered her husband and child before that. Not saying it was justified but also not unprovoked.

    • @ninjaked1265
      @ninjaked1265 Pƙed rokem +15

      @@KS-PNW her child was not murdered, he survived

    • @dantemoose420
      @dantemoose420 Pƙed rokem

      i mean, the total and utter annihilation of not only the citizens, but the town itself, was an effective way to end a siege.... so yeah. kept her word!

    • @lizap8686
      @lizap8686 Pƙed rokem +8

      @@KS-PNW her husband had collected taxes once and then returned to collect them for the second time.

    • @dhirajbelvadi8322
      @dhirajbelvadi8322 Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci +6

      @@lizap8686 the taxes paid by that tribe was less so he went back to collect more with a small force and got murdered

  • @joechalmers8428
    @joechalmers8428 Pƙed rokem +219

    " A mother watching her son's eyes be ripped out is what we call a tad brutal "

    • @frankgesuele6298
      @frankgesuele6298 Pƙed rokem +2

      Go to your room!

    • @TheAdatto
      @TheAdatto Pƙed rokem +4

      I almost lose it when me 2year old son bumps his head... brutal

  • @AliSakurai
    @AliSakurai Pƙed rokem +290

    Maria Antonia was not a cruel Queen! She tried desperately to help France when it finally dawned on her what was going on but they let their own hatred of Austria cloud their judgement!

    • @he2collinator
      @he2collinator Pƙed rokem +27

      Thank you for saying that very little people actually really studied about it most people just believe what they say about Marie Antoinette, but she was actually a very good woman and she tried to save the people friends, but she did not have the power to and then in that situation, people would think her husband was the bad guy but if you even do even further researching her husband Couldn’t do anything either cause all the power relied on a parliamentary system they had with the peasants, nobility, Porgy, and the Royals, the Royals, having the highest vote, and the peasants, having the lowest meaning that for most of the votes, the Royals and the peasants would be over, turned by the clergy and nobility, which everybody of those rankings were forced to attend

  • @opaquesadness
    @opaquesadness Pƙed rokem +82

    Little Detail that I kinda like:
    Three of the Queens mentioned here are related. Isabella of Castille was the mother of Juana la Loca and Catherine of Aragon, who gave birth to Mary 1 of England!

  • @diversejoe617
    @diversejoe617 Pƙed rokem +265

    Irene: it feels good torturing people
    Ranavolona: *Am I a joke to you?*

  • @homersimpsonsfatguyhat9541
    @homersimpsonsfatguyhat9541 Pƙed rokem +188

    Joanna the mad was the older sister of Catherine of Aragon. Catherine was the first wife of Henry VIII and mother of Mary I.

    • @aprilgosa5779
      @aprilgosa5779 Pƙed rokem +27

      Yes and Joanna was not really Mad she was mistreated by her father and husband and driven craz yor just put falsely away

  • @elsakristina2689
    @elsakristina2689 Pƙed rokem +254

    I honestly feel so sorry for Maria Eleonora. A lot of the information about her mental state and behaviour is actually exaggerated or occasionally even fabricated and I don’t believe she was insane at all. Specifically I think she had BPD and was bipolar too and the loss of her husband scarred her for life, but her letters show that she was actually a very loving mother. As for Kristina, she was only hairy at birth, it’s called lanugo, plus she was actually mistaken for a boy at first, at least according to the story she was told growing up that she repeated in her autobiography.

    • @roguejester4986
      @roguejester4986 Pƙed rokem +24

      She was still a bad person.

    • @yourbiologicalmom7608
      @yourbiologicalmom7608 Pƙed rokem +14

      @@roguejester4986 Agree! I am so happy Kristina had a good future as a queen I love her way saying she didn’t need a man

    • @roguejester4986
      @roguejester4986 Pƙed rokem +1

      @@yourbiologicalmom7608 Her father did well.

    • @yourbiologicalmom7608
      @yourbiologicalmom7608 Pƙed rokem +2

      @@roguejester4986 yeah ikr!

    • @historyduck
      @historyduck Pƙed rokem

      these conversations only start or get talked about if things are exaggerated , on my channel I do that but I would never fabricate a story, would you lie to get comments?

  • @NightMedicine
    @NightMedicine Pƙed rokem +62

    Everyone knows Freddie Mercury is THE most brutal queen.

    • @vdd689
      @vdd689 Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci

      FAX

  • @montecorbit8280
    @montecorbit8280 Pƙed rokem +79

    At 7:22
    "Let them eat cake"....
    At the time and in that place, there was a lesser and lower form of bread. It was translated as cake.... She was saying if you can't afford expensive bread eat cheap bread. She wasn't out of touch, she didn't care!!

    • @EnDigoLazer
      @EnDigoLazer Pƙed rokem +17

      The researchers for this page are kind of out of touch.

    • @rias.gremoryyy
      @rias.gremoryyy Pƙed rokem +47

      Fun fact she shouldn't be on this list, and it's beyond laughable at how confident all of you are when talking about marie antoinette, she never said let them eat cake, the phrase is taken from a book about a similar princess written by Rousseau, and she wasn't even top 5 biggest spenders at Versailles during her lifetime let alone its whole history..she's not to blame for her country's poverty, the blame for that goes to Louis XIV and Louis XV

    • @rias.gremoryyy
      @rias.gremoryyy Pƙed rokem +21

      And she's also a scapegoat for all the royals that switched teams and a scapegoat for the revolutionaries who wanted to blame someone thus made stuff up on her

    • @brittanybeauvais
      @brittanybeauvais Pƙed rokem +14

      You need to do better research lol. She was lucky to be born privileged and education wasn’t her strong suit, so she was completely ignorant of all matters outside of her own court. Not saying that’s right since she did eventually assume the throne, but she was certainly NOT evil - just painfully ignorant of the plight of the French people. She was not even a native of France originally, so she was truly removed from their struggles as a country.

    • @KS-PNW
      @KS-PNW Pƙed rokem +13

      Forget mistranslation. There's no solid evidence that she ever said it period.

  • @tomgresis7720
    @tomgresis7720 Pƙed rokem +16

    I had a teacher in high school who told us that “let them eat cake” wasn’t referring to a dessert cake but was referring to the burnt “caked” on bits that stuck to the bread ovens.

  • @weixia5577
    @weixia5577 Pƙed rokem +32

    They take slaaaay queennnn to a whole different level

    • @caitlingill
      @caitlingill Pƙed rokem +2

      WHOLE different meaning đŸ˜łđŸ« đŸ˜Ź

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 Pƙed rokem +64

    I've heard of most of these Queen's before. But not all. Wow. Many of them were just so messed up.

  • @frankmaeder4358
    @frankmaeder4358 Pƙed rokem +124

    As to Elisabeth I, she actually was religiously quite tolerant at first. Only after countless coups and assassination attempts to overthrow her, she came to the conclusion that she must do something against them. but not normal people just anywhere. Her halfsister Mary, however, was bloodthirsty and really did enjoy burning people at the stake.
    And Isabela I did actually mostly start the Spanish inquisition, making her confessor the first great inquisitor of spain; the infamous Torquemada

    • @Eevcee
      @Eevcee Pƙed rokem +10

      Hmm sounds like a double standard. Isabella I not only felt pressure from Rome but there was intense antisemitism within Castile that threatened her rule if she didn’t placate Christians. There were also many rebellions in Granada post-conquest. Isabella did what she thought was best for her rule, as did Elizabeth.

    • @ivyrose779
      @ivyrose779 Pƙed rokem +5

      Same with Mary I.

  • @JelleSophie
    @JelleSophie Pƙed rokem +41

    Because of Empress Irene, Charles the Great was crowned Emperor because the Imperial throne was vacant. Woman couldn’t rule in their own name was believed.

  • @JoseFlores-xh5cj
    @JoseFlores-xh5cj Pƙed rokem +54

    Marie Antoinette didn't even sound brutal at all, just someone who took advantage of her privileged live during a time of famine.

    • @perlarosa886
      @perlarosa886 Pƙed rokem +11

      She wasn’t aware of the situation happening in France.

    • @KS-PNW
      @KS-PNW Pƙed rokem +15

      I think it's worth remembering she was only 16 when she took the throne.
      How many of us can say we'd have made a good ruler at that age? I sure wouldn't have lol

    • @CatLov3r10
      @CatLov3r10 Pƙed rokem +2

      Well, the French were not happy about the famine.

    • @sebastianjamesbrown6001
      @sebastianjamesbrown6001 Pƙed 2 měsĂ­ci

      Your so right completely agree, she was partially responsible for the people not having income or food, but she was not brutal

  • @jessicaalderman589
    @jessicaalderman589 Pƙed rokem +95

    Infographics always have such interesting videos! Writing for them would literally be a DREAM!

  • @justaweeb5052
    @justaweeb5052 Pƙed rokem +49

    I like how Queens immediately became so mainstream

    • @ghostnike901
      @ghostnike901 Pƙed rokem +1

      Yasssss!!!

    • @Osama_Zyn_Laden
      @Osama_Zyn_Laden Pƙed rokem +6

      Been notice how the majority of them are nucking futs

    • @conorkeane4665
      @conorkeane4665 Pƙed rokem +3

      Yeah I am a little boree of hearing of hearing the history of kings tho.

    • @toffiet3347
      @toffiet3347 Pƙed rokem +4

      @@Osama_Zyn_Laden I think that's just royals

    • @justaweeb5052
      @justaweeb5052 Pƙed rokem +2

      @@Osama_Zyn_Laden nucking futs

  • @katherinewren9906
    @katherinewren9906 Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci +7

    Marie Antoinette was naĂŻve and sheltered, not cruel. She loved children and apologized to her executioner when she accidentally stepped on his foot on the scaffold. She was a scapegoat, not a monster.

  • @mj.ray0898
    @mj.ray0898 Pƙed rokem +32

    "It's all your fault, bigfoot." I love this channel 😂

  • @davidringmann3395
    @davidringmann3395 Pƙed rokem +28

    Juana la Loca was actually Queen of Castile-Leon until her death in 1555 as well as Queen of Aragon from 1516 until her death. The only reason why she did not rule was because she was locked by her father and then by her son who was co-ruler by her side just that only he rule due to her confinement. And Isabella I did not rule until 1474 when her half-brother Henry IV died. 1451 was the year of her birth.

  • @roberw1912
    @roberw1912 Pƙed rokem +18

    Mary I was less brutal than her sister Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. 300 Protestants is a lot, but Henry VIII killed at least 40,000 people. These numbers are huge when you consider the population was only 3-4 million people. Elizabeth I had killed tens of thousands of people too, and ran a police state

    • @bobettepancakes
      @bobettepancakes Pƙed rokem +2

      Thank you! I thought I was the only person who knew this lol.

    • @tsarina24honolulu87
      @tsarina24honolulu87 Pƙed rokem +5

      I read Elizabeth could have killed up to 70k.

    • @roberw1912
      @roberw1912 Pƙed rokem +1

      @@tsarina24honolulu87 yeah, it's likely to convert an unwilling population to another religion does take a lot of of persuasion.

    • @mayashemesh7370
      @mayashemesh7370 Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci +1

      She doesn't deserve first place in this list.

  • @errolpletcher9186
    @errolpletcher9186 Pƙed rokem +15

    7:14- "Then let them eat Taco Bell's Crunch Wrap Supreme."
    "Wow... they're not THAT desperate!"

  • @8461529
    @8461529 Pƙed rokem +8

    After watching many videos on this channel, every new video gives me a feeling: "I've heard this before", but it's still interesting, so great job

  • @Emeril5000
    @Emeril5000 Pƙed rokem +133

    I know she’s fictional, but Cersei deserves an honorable mention. 😂

    • @Flamsterette
      @Flamsterette Pƙed rokem +2

      No. She's FICTIONAL.

    • @heathermason9311
      @heathermason9311 Pƙed rokem +9

      Agreed!! 😂

    • @noodleramen2217
      @noodleramen2217 Pƙed rokem

      she's fictional

    • @matthewmccoy7437
      @matthewmccoy7437 Pƙed rokem +15

      the actress who played her was so good at the role that in an interview she said that sometimes random people will come up to her and tell her how much they hate her😂😂

    • @toptiermess
      @toptiermess Pƙed rokem

      right lol

  • @thezootopiahusky
    @thezootopiahusky Pƙed rokem +17

    7:13 This is mostly likely apocryphal as It's very unlikely Antoinette said that and it was attributed to her until half a century later

    • @rias.gremoryyy
      @rias.gremoryyy Pƙed rokem

      She shouldn't even be on this list, most of the things they said are inaccurate and out of context, since most of it was made up by revolutionaries who are known for using a lot of propaganda

    • @KS-PNW
      @KS-PNW Pƙed rokem

      Yup.
      Even if she did say it, she wouldn't have been referring to cake in the modern sense, at the time it refered to fancy bread. So it basically would have meant "let them have the good stuff if they need it."
      Probably never happened period though.

    • @thezootopiahusky
      @thezootopiahusky Pƙed rokem

      @@KS-PNW Aka Brioches

  • @gigiravel
    @gigiravel Pƙed rokem +37

    Isabel of Castile was also the mother or Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of King Henry Vlll.

  • @EVAASIVEOne
    @EVAASIVEOne Pƙed rokem

    Thank you very much for this video

  • @corymorimacori1059
    @corymorimacori1059 Pƙed rokem +30

    “How are you the head of your state when the state of your head was a crazy one?” Catherine the Great

  • @Flamsterette
    @Flamsterette Pƙed rokem +2

    Perfect upload for my September 2022 birthday month!

  • @angiemono8539
    @angiemono8539 Pƙed rokem +8

    If "evil queen" is decided by what happened under the reign of the monarch then Queen Elizabeth should be on this list. It's a gross whitewash of history to ignore the 3 million Indians that Winston Churchill starved while he was prime minister, and the concentration camps in Kenya and India under her reign which she directly profited from and still owns ill-gotten land.

  • @jaidengames26
    @jaidengames26 Pƙed rokem +84

    Actually we don’t know if Elizabeth Bathory was framed or not and she actually wasn’t kept in a luxurious castle she was kept in her own dungeons

    • @CaesiusX
      @CaesiusX Pƙed rokem +5

      Interesting. I hadn't heard that before. I've since read some info to that effect. đŸ€”
      Thanks.

    • @RandianaJoness
      @RandianaJoness Pƙed rokem +4

      I was totally scanning the comments specifically to see if someone would mention this 😂

    • @Derick_695
      @Derick_695 Pƙed rokem +2

      Ummmmmmm.. She was confined to her home; imprisoned in Castle of Csejte. Sooo idk where you got your information from, but it was only 50% correct.

    • @Derick_695
      @Derick_695 Pƙed rokem +1

      But just to be as historically correct as possible here let's be clear. She was in fact convicted, however some believe there was no concrete evidence. So since there was no concrete evidence, some say you can't prove her guilt beyond reasonable doubt. I say that's debatable. Idk about back then, but I can say today with 100% confidence that there is in fact judicial precedent that supports a guilty verdict.

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 Pƙed rokem +2

      Elizabeth Bathory Wasn't Queen At All !!! She WAS Upper Hungarian Aristocracy !

  • @JoseCastro-br6to
    @JoseCastro-br6to Pƙed rokem +12

    I don't know guys. About Juana the mad (la loca), it was well documented that she wasn't fit for duty, since she became the heir apparent, her father tried to introduce her to the "kingdoms' affairs" with no avail. Even suggesting in his chronicles that Joan had something more than lack of interest. Her husband Philip and the Flemish court also documented the mental issues of Joan, as well as his sons...
    Now on Isabella there are a lot of mistakes there... most of this legend of an evil Isabella's character was not documented on her time, so that note should be included.

  • @jasmineblake9838
    @jasmineblake9838 Pƙed rokem

    This is one of the best channels on heređŸ€žđŸ€žđŸ’Ż

  • @michelngadze6760
    @michelngadze6760 Pƙed rokem +56

    They should do one for fictional queens. Cersei 😅

    • @serpaolo7413
      @serpaolo7413 Pƙed rokem +1

      Interesting take comparing fictional Queens, but unfortunately in most fiction the villans are cartoonishly exagerated as opposed to the nuances of real people, although Cersei was inspired primarily by a real person Margaret of Anjou, who was Queen Consort to King Henry VI of England.

  • @charlottejoly5657
    @charlottejoly5657 Pƙed rokem +7

    If Marie Antoinette was evil because she was a noble and privileged woman, so were every other queen in history. She doesn't belong on this list. And no, she never said "let them eat cake", it's actually Louis XVI's aunt Madame Victoire who said "let them eat pùté crust"...

  • @veronicado1016
    @veronicado1016 Pƙed rokem +8

    Everything I learned about history comes from infographics. Great job guys well done👏👏👏😄😄!!

  • @yendorelrae5476
    @yendorelrae5476 Pƙed rokem +10

    This narrator is easily top 10 of all You Tube narrators!

  • @giornos_floral_fever7976
    @giornos_floral_fever7976 Pƙed rokem +38

    From what I was taught about Marie Antoinette is that after she was taken from her mother and sisters to wed the prince she was never taught how to be a proper Queen because she was not born in France so she knew nothing about how to work with funds or what to do for the people. But like I said this is what I was taught:)

    • @aprilgosa5779
      @aprilgosa5779 Pƙed rokem +9

      Marie was not read y be Queen she was 14 she did care fr the poor but there was only so much she could do her trial was stacked against her by men just like Anne Boleyn

    • @MsAliciaRL
      @MsAliciaRL Pƙed rokem +7

      Most married royals were not born in the country. The British monarchy have a lot of German blood, for example.

    • @KS-PNW
      @KS-PNW Pƙed rokem +4

      @@aprilgosa5779 she got married when she was 14, she was 16 when she became queen. Just fyi.

    • @eoinmoodie1484
      @eoinmoodie1484 Pƙed rokem

      Marie Antoinette had been told she was going to be married since her 13th birthday she had months of preparation

    • @venicedomicello7861
      @venicedomicello7861 Pƙed rokem +1

      @@eoinmoodie1484 you do realize a few months of education at the age of 13 is not going to prepare someone enough to help RULE A COUNTRY???

  • @Uzair_Of_Babylon465
    @Uzair_Of_Babylon465 Pƙed rokem +1

    Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job

  • @raumaanking
    @raumaanking Pƙed rokem +17

    Imagine if Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard got a divorce and they were never executed both still alive during Mary’s reign

    • @BulraAviation278
      @BulraAviation278 Pƙed rokem +5

      That would've been way better 👑👾

    • @anonymouse7836
      @anonymouse7836 Pƙed rokem +1

      Fun fact: Katheryn's mother was the sister of Anne's father. They were cousins...

  • @exposingproxystalkingorgan4164

    This video is fascinating. 😳

  • @Mrgunsngear
    @Mrgunsngear Pƙed rokem

    Thanks

  • @Scrinwaipwr
    @Scrinwaipwr Pƙed rokem +3

    12:08 Disturban History has a whole video of Ranavalona; worth a watch.

  • @ejc4489
    @ejc4489 Pƙed rokem +15

    Please make an infographic show about the history of battle of yultong. Where there are 1000 Filipinos vs 40000 chinese. That would be interesting to watch

  • @violethize
    @violethize Pƙed 11 měsĂ­ci

    It was awesome video. But could you also create a video about the best queens? I would like to see that.

  • @ives3572
    @ives3572 Pƙed rokem +11

    "I have to be seen to be believed." - Queen Elizabeth II

    • @FroggyIsTheBoy
      @FroggyIsTheBoy Pƙed rokem

      I don’t think she’s evil why would Queen Elizabeth be evil at the age of 93?đŸ‘”đŸ˜ˆ

  • @amityboy14mo
    @amityboy14mo Pƙed rokem

    WOW LOVE IT!

  • @williansnobre
    @williansnobre Pƙed rokem +10

    Olga of Kyiv is like a WH40k saint.

    • @jackmason5278
      @jackmason5278 Pƙed rokem

      She was canonized by two religions (Orthodox and Roman Catholic) largely because she tried to spread Christianity to Ukraine. But she was also a mass murderer of the highest order. Kinda interesting.

  • @bjorndamrong3289
    @bjorndamrong3289 Pƙed rokem +1

    Love this channel 😍

  • @someonethatexists46
    @someonethatexists46 Pƙed rokem +5

    The infographics show makes my brain grow everyday. đŸ€“

  • @bobettepancakes
    @bobettepancakes Pƙed rokem +11

    I love the infographics show but this video is extremely inaccurate and misleading. I a student of history and have been studying history (specifically the Tudor period and the wars of the roses) for YEARS. The lies that you repeated about Mary I in this video (and the one you made specifically about her) have no historical basis, especially the claim that that she had pregnant people burnt. First of all, Mary herself said that she wouldn't prosecute protestants that were loyal and respectful to her and who practiced their faith in private. Of course, some of the people killed were innocent, but that wasn't by MARY'S hand. That was the fault of the bishops and clergy who were responsible for law enforcement. They went to far a lot of the time and often did things without the Queen's permission. Secondly, Mary NEVER had pregnant people killed. It was against the law at the time, even for monarchs, and Mary was the last person who would do that as a very motherly person herself who was desperate for a child of her own. The claims that she had pregnant people killed were made up by an extremely misogynist protestant a long time after her death. There is no evidence to suggest that what he claimed about her reign were true, and many historians nowadays agree that he was just trying to scaremonger about female leaders and Catholics. As a historian myself, I find the fact that a channel which is very popular and one which many people look to for facts and information is spreading these lies to this day very annoying and disappointing. Do better!

    • @snicker576
      @snicker576 Pƙed rokem +4

      Agreed! I personally believe there was also a weird politically correct reason to make sure that Mary was shown as the "most evil" here. This channel makes me really uncomfortable sometimes, gets to feeling a bit propagandaish

    • @sofiaag5371
      @sofiaag5371 Pƙed rokem +2

      And also describing Maria I of Portugal as a brutal queen is inaccurate! Where do they get the sources?!

  • @AdityaDamleFunkyOutsider
    @AdityaDamleFunkyOutsider Pƙed rokem +5

    "It's all your fault, bigfoot". Sad, but LOL

  • @StardustAvenger
    @StardustAvenger Pƙed rokem

    Interesting timing on posting this video XD

  • @JuanitoMedz
    @JuanitoMedz Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci

    I love the cartoony animations, make it looks so cute and sad at the same time LOL ♄

  • @DEDETheMenace
    @DEDETheMenace Pƙed rokem

    YEAH INFO! YEAH HISTORY!

  • @nathanielthomas4071
    @nathanielthomas4071 Pƙed rokem +3

    I knew Bathory was going to make the list some how and rightfully so. Yes infamous AFđŸ™ŒđŸœ

    • @KS-PNW
      @KS-PNW Pƙed rokem +1

      It's actually debatable how accurate the horror stories about her are.

  • @andreeaelenapirleci5877
    @andreeaelenapirleci5877 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +4

    Bathory never drank the blood, she bathed in it, and she didn't take the girls by force, she lured them in by teeling their parents she will teach them good manners. Also the girls had to be virgins and later on she moved to noble girls, because she was kinda out of virgins. Thats why she was caught. Moreover, she didn't spend her life sentence in luxury, she was locked in an empty tower from the castle where a wall has been built to lock her in, no windows no doors. And she died from starvation.

  • @oliveractimin2562
    @oliveractimin2562 Pƙed rokem

    This is nice

  • @kauyanDJ
    @kauyanDJ Pƙed rokem +18

    Here's a tale of Wu ZeTian: after securing power, the Royal prince (her son) and Wu family (her brothers) started going GoT.
    To put an end to this, two male concubines were made into her minsters, and had them trolled her families to peace before she execute the playboys, real Queen's gambit.

    • @devinreis5811
      @devinreis5811 Pƙed rokem

      She had one of her husbands beheaded for being unfaithful.

    • @OcarinaSapphr-
      @OcarinaSapphr- Pƙed rokem +1

      Didn't she also have one of her daughters killed, & blame it on a rival...?

    • @devinreis5811
      @devinreis5811 Pƙed rokem

      @@OcarinaSapphr- She had a rival beheaded for allegedly murdering one of her children. She was very beheading-happy.

  • @pathologicalliar8728
    @pathologicalliar8728 Pƙed rokem +4

    To be fair Queen Olga converted after that event and Chilled out a lot afterwards

  • @Happyvibes446
    @Happyvibes446 Pƙed rokem +16

    What a good time to post video about queens đŸ€Ł

    • @kennethleib7731
      @kennethleib7731 Pƙed rokem +1

      I thought the same thing. Hahahaha

    • @m4a1_delta66
      @m4a1_delta66 Pƙed rokem +1

      Yikes that really didn’t age well 😂 or did she đŸ€”

  • @SassyyjuicyMaria
    @SassyyjuicyMaria Pƙed rokem +9

    I'm losing respect for this channel, there's no way
    Marie Antoinette said "let them eat cake" She did
    not say that. Out of touch? Maybe? Cruel? No.
    How many people did she put to death? And she
    ended up guillotined herself.

    • @tookstalesofthenorth
      @tookstalesofthenorth Pƙed 11 měsĂ­ci +1

      The part about Maria Eleonora is also completely false. I've made a video about Vasa queens, third part is mostly about her, if you would like the hear her real story :)

  • @GreenLink500
    @GreenLink500 Pƙed rokem +8

    I was watching and suddenly I hear "Marie Antoinette" and I was like, "Wait a second, I'm related to her!"

    • @BulraAviation278
      @BulraAviation278 Pƙed rokem +3

      wait what?!?!

    • @gleianalbiso2388
      @gleianalbiso2388 Pƙed 29 dny

      Broooo no wayyy your related to a queen?!?!?

    • @GreenLink500
      @GreenLink500 Pƙed 29 dny

      @@gleianalbiso2388 Broooooo I forgot I made this comment I was such an idiot back then, but yeah, surprisingly

  • @Via-Media2024
    @Via-Media2024 Pƙed rokem +4

    14:41 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

  • @fukyoufromjacksepticeye9212

    Hay I am from Nepal
    Love your work ❀

  • @FluttershyIsAGoddess
    @FluttershyIsAGoddess Pƙed rokem +5

    "She was later taken to Brazil, but things didn't get any better there." I wonder why? LOL

  • @Dennis-nc3vw
    @Dennis-nc3vw Pƙed rokem +21

    Irene doesn’t seem so bad. Ripping his eyes out is understandable given she forgave his first insurrection.

    • @Goodiesfanful
      @Goodiesfanful Pƙed rokem +7

      But ripping someone's eyes out is not very nice, much less your own son.

    • @CreativeWitchArt
      @CreativeWitchArt Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +3

      ​@@Goodiesfanfultrying to overthrow your mom is not very nice

  • @matthewhummel1572
    @matthewhummel1572 Pƙed rokem +3

    If I’m not mistaken, if it was ever said, “let them eat cake” referred to the baked on soot in the fireplaces.

    • @KS-PNW
      @KS-PNW Pƙed rokem +2

      That's one interpretation.
      There's actually no evidence that she said it period. The earliest claim that attributes that line to her comes from a document written 40+ years after her death.

  • @MaeveNightmare
    @MaeveNightmare Pƙed rokem +5

    Mary Antionette wasn't evil. Oblivious and privileged absolutely but not evil.

  • @robertbarrows6687
    @robertbarrows6687 Pƙed rokem +1

    Marie Antoinette doesn't deserve to be on this list. She wasn't evil, she was sheltered and honestly didn't know anything that the French people were suffering from.

  • @nancyomalley6286
    @nancyomalley6286 Pƙed rokem +7

    So, Juana La Loca was Catherine of Aragon's sister?
    Didn't know that!

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 Pƙed rokem

      FROM Ferdinand II of Aragon/V of Castile and Isabella I of Castile ( The Catholic Monarchs of Unified Spain !!! )

  • @jackb1969
    @jackb1969 Pƙed rokem

    The birds setting the fires is quite brilliant

  • @Piankhi_the_Greater
    @Piankhi_the_Greater Pƙed rokem

    Hey there @The Infographics Show, could you please make a video about what would happen if Rita Repulsa and Goldar (from the power rangers series) fought the U.S. military?

  • @LoveHandle4890
    @LoveHandle4890 Pƙed rokem +4

    R.I.P Queen Elizabeth the ii.🙏

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Pƙed rokem +7

    Yes the queen of Madagascar is often times called the female Caligula.

  • @mortemanku5279
    @mortemanku5279 Pƙed rokem +2

    Boris Johnson said that if Putin was a woman he wouldn't invade Ukraine but Catherine The Great would cringe at that statement.

  • @randomjunk1998
    @randomjunk1998 Pƙed rokem +2

    Me *simply hears the name Gustavus Adolphus* begins humming the chorus to Lion from the North

  • @wasilaify
    @wasilaify Pƙed rokem +3

    The inclusion of Marie Antoinette here is totally unfair. She did not make policies.

    • @LD-Orbs
      @LD-Orbs Pƙed rokem

      She was silly, but not evil, AFAIK.

  • @Charlamagne666
    @Charlamagne666 Pƙed rokem

    Eleonora and baby big foot 😂😂😂 that killed me

  • @jennyzarate7086
    @jennyzarate7086 Pƙed 20 dny +1

    14:34 I love Isabelle the first. As a Bolivian 🇧🇮I'm ashamed of the bad reputation mediocre people gave her. She always looked after the indigenous people from Latin America

  • @WooperChannelYT
    @WooperChannelYT Pƙed rokem

    Nice

  • @aprilgosa5779
    @aprilgosa5779 Pƙed rokem +5

    She did not say that about cake a male said it not Marie . Marie did try to help people less fotunate than her

  • @Bor3dc4p1d
    @Bor3dc4p1d Pƙed rokem +37

    Teaches me more than my history classes

    • @kylealexander7024
      @kylealexander7024 Pƙed rokem +1

      Well ur name explains a lot

    • @chiraqclips3568
      @chiraqclips3568 Pƙed rokem +3

      If the infographics show teaches you more than your history class you should drop

    • @viakion2125
      @viakion2125 Pƙed rokem +1

      @@chiraqclips3568 how do i graduate then bru

    • @chent5463
      @chent5463 Pƙed rokem +2

      Idk about these comments but school helped me more than a random CZcams channel 💀

    • @Bor3dc4p1d
      @Bor3dc4p1d Pƙed rokem

      Y'all know this is a joke right?

  • @67ken67
    @67ken67 Pƙed rokem

    Hey infographics will you do a video about the world economic forum I like to see whose side you're on

  • @bobroberts8500
    @bobroberts8500 Pƙed rokem

    Got a current discord link??

  • @RyanCoomer
    @RyanCoomer Pƙed rokem +5

    I blame the Rap Music. The ticking of the hihat constantly triggers the brain with instant reactions to uneeded strife with a feeling to ACT SUDDENLY. The thud and vibration of the Bass messes with the timing of the Heart and Lungs causing undo stress and Anxiety. You will feel anger and uncertainty while listening and feel trapped by even your alley or vehicle. Your home becomes a prison with the music inside of your body making you want to get high and violent.

  • @Justsayfetch
    @Justsayfetch Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci

    "It's all your fault Bigfoot!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @koretechx1
    @koretechx1 Pƙed měsĂ­cem

    The "cake" reference falsely attributed to Marie Antoinette wasn't about expensive desserts. Cake, at the time, referred to the thick layers of burnt carbon that built up on the walls of the wood fire ovens used at the time.

  • @Drew-wo3ud
    @Drew-wo3ud Pƙed rokem +24

    It's so sad that she did that to her own son đŸ˜Ș😔

  • @MrMirville
    @MrMirville Pƙed rokem +9

    Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake!". The poor and sick people who came to her castle did not come to complain or to demonstrate. They came to be touched by her hands in the hope of a miracle as they were sick peasants who believed in the miraculous powers of saints and also of royals. They had come a long way and they were hungry because of the long journey by foot. The queen wanted to give them a provision of bread for the return route but there was no bread in the castle because the baker hadn't been very diligent that day. But there were left-overs of egg-loaf (not cake) and she ordered those pieces of egg-loaf to be given to the pilgrims. A few of the pilgrims did cure. Bur Benjamin Franklin happened to be in Paris and he had a special detestation for another scientist called Messmer who studied the magnetic power of saints and royals and had come to the conclusion it was real and could be measured. Benjamin Franklin propagated that piece of fake news to disparage Messmer and Marie Antoinette (who was his protector), mostly to the English-reading public that loved to scoff at France.

  • @Simon-px8mi
    @Simon-px8mi Pƙed rokem +1

    I see you did i smart thing with the youtube algorythn with everyone having eyes on queen Elizabeth II you made yourself some good views

  • @alexanderwhite8320
    @alexanderwhite8320 Pƙed rokem +2

    #9 is a basis for Diablo II quest. The Countess.

  • @cocoblue2898
    @cocoblue2898 Pƙed rokem +2

    In the UK where I live queen Mary the 1st was scary she burned people's skin off with one candle ONE so she kept killing for fun