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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

Right.

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

That is a whole different, whole different 80.

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

Crazy.

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

And she had lived through so much scandal in her life.

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

But we've got one more scandal that I thought was interesting.

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

She is buried next to Henry and on her tomb, her effigy, which is like, you know, where they like have supposed to look like you laying there.

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

It doesn't seem scandalous to us now, but she requested to have her effigy be of a woman reading a book.

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

Which now is like, okay, she liked to read, but then was such a symbol of intelligence and of autonomy, which then was very much kind of like a, oh, a book was a bit of a scandal.

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

What, the woman?

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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

What the woman?

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

Yeah, she's like, I was smart.

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

And it's still there today.

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

So it was her permanent way of saying, like, remember, I am going to I'm going to do what I want to do.

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

Well, thanks so much for letting me come on here and tell Eleanor's story.

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

And where can people find you, Katie?

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

We, Queens Podcast, is wherever you get your podcast.

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

And then we're largely on Instagram if you are on the socials.

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

And we are on Patreon if you like seeing, if you like watching as opposed to listening.

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

You can check that out on patreon.com slash queenspodcast.