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And here is your 32nd Summary!

Cleopatra is often remembered for her lure, but her life is a series of battles.

Her survival in a ruthless family, for the hearts and minds of people, her respect and recognition from her own,

for the welfare of her country and, after her death, the final battle for her reputation,

tarnished by her enemies, and therefore her life.

Welcome to the show!

Today we talk about Cleopatra, the second and final, for now, installment in our series on Egyptian Queens.

Though her beginnings are must misty, here are some things we do know.

Her family was not Egyptian, that you need to know right off the bat.

The tolamies, and that spilled with a pea.

Okay, we're put in place by the land grabber that was Alexander the Great.

He put them on the throne, but they are Greek, they are descended from Macedonian Greeks.

Cleopatra was not Egyptian at all, and there's a lot of discussion about what color was she,

was she could she be considered black, maybe.

Her heritage is a little murky, as is a lot of people of that time, but doesn't matter.

No, because she's Cleopatra, and the color of her skin is not important.

So her father, Alvarez, the Piper or the Bastard, was summoned back from Syria after this extreme,

Hatfield and McCoy, 200-year battle.

They looked around and realized, hey, wait a minute, there's no legitimate heirs left.

We've forgotten to leave one alive, so they had to summon one from afar.

Yeah, this family is worse than Henry VIII, by swear.

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