Dr Elena Janega
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Apr
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to roll the dice and put John, who is an adult, on the third.
And I think that this is an important point, though, because people tend to think that there is one way that people become kings in the Middle Ages, and it's just kind of, yeah, straight primogeniture.
You follow this line down.
Yeah.
That's just not how things work.
Decisions are being made all the time in terms of who can rule when and why.
And if you accept that and just go with it, it explains a lot more.
Because Eleanor is also kind of thinking, well, I don't know how much more life I've got in me.
She's constantly trying to retire.
She is constantly trying to go away to the convent that she wishes to retire to and kind of like being like pulled back in.
So she's really frustrated by this.
And I think one of the things that goes on here is that Eleanor doesn't necessarily trust Arthur's mother.
to be the queen regent.
And Eleanor says, well, you know, I can have a little bit more influence over John.
John is an adult.
Let's just roll the dice and see what we can do here.
Maybe I can go back into retirement a little bit more.
She doesn't want to be in London doing all these things.
She's old, you know, she's been a mother of 10 for God's sake.
She just wants to have like a well-earned retirement doing what it is she wants to do.
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