George R.R. Martin has made no secret of his inspiration for the HBO show: the Anarchy, a two-decade period, from 1135 to 1154, when a man and a woman vied with each other for the English throne.
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During a two-decade period of English history known as the Anarchy, a woman sought to make the then-unprecedented move of ascending to the English throne.