Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings
Right Answers Mostly
Claire Donald & Tess Bellomo
4.6 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 1:21.4 | Shop in the app, online, and in stores. Welcome. Welcome back to Write Answers Mostly a podcast on what you didn't learn in history class, but you really wanted to. |
| 1:23.8 | I am one of your hosts, Tespelomo. |
| 1:26.5 | And I am your other host, Claire Donald. |
| 1:44.6 | And we are so excited to be back with Katie from Queens, friend of the pod. You guys know her. You love her. Hello, Katie. Hello. Thank you so much for having me back. I am. I'm so excited to be talking to you all today. We're so excited because a lot of, you know, a lot of our families are like, we got to talk more about the Royal Girlies. Yes. Yeah. And I'm assuming |
| 1:50.6 | this is a Royal Girlie. This is a Royal Girlie. Okay. Yes. Definitely. I pulled our Queen's |
| 1:58.4 | podcast community like, hey, I'm going back on right answers mostly. |
| 2:03.3 | So I was asked our community, who should we do, did a quick poll. |
| 2:09.7 | And it was pretty, pretty overwhelmingly people wanted me to come on here and talk about one of my historical crushes, Eleanor of Aquitaine, |
| 2:20.4 | who is, it's an oldie but a goodie. So what a she name? No, truly, we're so excited because I think |
| 2:29.3 | you developed one of my first historical crushes, which was Cleopatra. That was truly one of my favorite episodes. |
| 2:36.5 | And I know that our Rammies are excited because we have so much crossover with your podcast, |
| 2:40.8 | Queens. We are so excited, Katie, to get into Eleanor. That's her name, right? I truly have never |
| 2:46.7 | heard of this woman before. I'm sorry to say. Oh, my God. Well, I also haven't. Get ready. I'm going to |
| 2:52.5 | tell you all about her and you're going to love her by the end of this hour. We are ready. |
| 2:58.1 | So the first thing I want to start off with, like I said, over on Queens, we, she is a three-parter. |
| 3:05.1 | So we have three like 45-minute episodes on her. So I wanted to keep this episode to about an hour. So just keep in mind that I'm skimming over a lot in this woman's life. But yeah, this story is intense. This story is crazy. This story is old. But it also shows you women have been fierce and interesting and weird and in your face since the olden days. |
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