Dr Elena Janega
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Apr
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But fundamentally, Richard's grandmother, Matilda, was arguably Queen of England.
She had been Holy Roman Empress.
There is this understanding that you can leave women in charge.
This is why you marry other royals and nobles, is because they are trained to understand how kingdoms are run.
And people need to go on, maybe not necessarily crusade, but men are often away.
They're very busy.
Yeah, so, you know.
You know, like they're doing a lot of things.
And so they move around a lot and someone has to do the work around here.
So is it weird to ask your mom to do it?
Yeah.
But he basically ends up going over to the Middle East.
Again, spoiler alert, Third Crusade.
Not so much.
Doesn't go particularly well.
He ends up getting married sort of as he's on his way over because his mum is like, listen, I understand that you're not particularly interested in being the King of England, but you are, and we're going to need some kids out of you.
So here's your wife.
And he's like, wow, that's crazy.
Anyway, bye.
Like I'm off to the Holy Land.
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