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Katy

Katy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
823 total appearances

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

In my mind, it was real.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

And like she held this court of love with her daughter is like her right hand man.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

And like they, yeah, like poets would come and like read her poetry every day.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

And she would like have like decide on like husbands and wives would come and she would be like, I get to decide who gets to keep the house or whatever.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

The court of love.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Okay.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

So remember how I said she had four sons?

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Well, I think I may have said six earlier, but she's got four.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

I think she had one or two that died because back then child mortality was insane.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

But she's got four sons and Henry's getting older.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

And typically when you're king and you've got lots of sons, what you're supposed to do is start delegating power.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Or you make one of them a priest or something so they don't start getting older.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Yeah.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Yeah.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

But you're supposed to give them something to do.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

And this... Or put them in the priesthood or something.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

But Henry Hutton put any of their sons in preschool and...

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

And also he had decided he didn't want to delegate shit.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

He wanted to just get older and keep doing it.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

And so now their sons are kind of like, we need shit to do.