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Writing about Queen Maria Carolina implicitly involves writing about the history of the Kingdom of Naples during the turbulent revolutionary period and the Napoleonic wars. The reason for this is given by the overwhelming influence that the Queen had over the affairs of her husband’s reign, in controlling the fate of the Two Sicilies for almost half a century. It was an era in which women had a dominant role in the affairs of many nations, but few possessed a power as real and as vast as that of the Queen of Naples.1
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Recca, C. (2017). Maria Carolina: Sovereign and Mother. In: The Diary of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, 1781-1785. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31987-2_1
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