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Hello and welcome to part 2 of our coverage of Eleanor of Aquitaine. When we left Eleanor,

in part 1, the King and Queen of France had called it quits. They certainly were personally

incompatible, we know that, but more importantly, Eleanor had not produced a son, an heir to

the Kingdom of France. And so, their marriage was an old, in March of 1152, when Eleanor was about 30.

So, let's all do old King Louis know that Eleanor had a plan, one that she had put in place as far back

as last August. I mean, more than half a year ago, and the second Louis back crossed the horizon.

It was a go. She had husband too lined up already, and now you and I might be prone to tell a

recently divorced friend, you know, find yourself. Take some time, get your groove back Stella, but if

you think about it, once word got out, the Eleanor's lands were up for grabs again, it would be the

worst sort of game of capture the flag, and who's the flag? Eleanor's the flag. She was a richest woman

in Europe. She had so much property, and while she was capable of ruling it by herself, she couldn't.

Society wouldn't allow it, and all I knowable had to do was kidnap her and marry her, and it's all his.

So yeah, she was in danger from the second she signed that enolment paper, and in fact, on the way back

to the safety, relative safety of Pauâtié, she narrowly escaped two kidnapping attempts by

enterprising nomenon. I mean, how many kidnappings can one woman endure? I just do not know.

Wait, what about that one guy? That one guy at Antioch, you know, fancy pants with the oranges and

the fountains? The uncle? No, I'm sorry to say that uncle Roel is unavailable. He's not an option because

his head is on a spike on a bridge. So what I'm saying is he's dead.

Well, I hope that would be dead because it would be really painful if he was so alive.

So, so hurry, hurry. She wrote to the lucky man in question, and with all haste, you know,

come marry me, super romantic. And so with all medieval haste, months later.

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