"Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life."
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Source : Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press
