Dr Emma Southon
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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So he's extremely rich.
And when he dies, all of that money becomes hers.
Yeah, and that is something that people say about her a lot, is that being independently wealthy and her having money, she doesn't really spend it on the things that they expected women to spend it on.
Like, she is notoriously never wears...
huge jewels or fancy houses or anything.
She's not a luxurious woman.
She just wants the security of money that she can use for either political purposes or that she just has money.
She just loves to have that security of knowing she has it.
The Messalina situation.
No, Messalina does that to herself.
Messalina's utterly bizarre decision to marry somebody else while her husband is on a day trip to Ostia, which is about half an hour away and have a big public wedding and then start moving stuff into somebody else's house is a
genuinely crackers decision that she makes all by herself for her own we have theories on this i think it's because she's stupid and on a cargo martin thinks it's because she's evil so they're not mutually exclusive sadly they're not mutually exclusive they might be both
It comes to a very bloody end.
So for that, she is executed in a garden.
So one of Claudius's freedmen, so one of the members of his household, basically orders her to be executed because Claudius is having a panic attack and can't really bring himself to make any decisions afterwards.
And it's clear that she just needs to be got out of the way.
So she has her head cut off in a garden, kind of extra judicially, leaving Claudius without a wife and leaving her two children.
She has a daughter and a son without a mother in the palace and leaving a big vacancy at the top because Claudius is...
Quite a weak-willed man and is very easily led largely by the last person that talked to him.
An emperor does need a wife.
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