Welcome to Rex Factor.

This week, Eleanor of Aquitaine Biography.

With your host Graham Duke and Ali Hood. Hello and welcome to Rex Factor reviewing all the Queen of Prince Consorts from England.

Uh, no, hmm.

How long's it been, Gee, man?

No, come.

Ing, eggle.

Now, due to how large she looms in English and indeed the European history

we're separating Ellen of Aquitaine into one biography episode which we're

doing today and then next time we'll do a review episode. But privy

counselors of course will get four episodes so there's the biography the

review the privy chamber and the latest installment in our film review

podcast Rex Flix in which Ali is finally going to watch The Lion in

Winter. I am indeed, yes. What did we get to the bottom? we're just going to press play at the same time and be texting each other yeah

sounds fun and that's that's a night out now lockdown style isn't it? Now despite these multiple episodes and her notorious

reputation a lot of Eleanor's life actually remains a mystery with the

not to Churchill Parsons and Wheeler who edited a book about her concluded that

rarely in the course of historical endeavor has so much been written over so many

centuries

about one woman of whom so little is really known.

Really?

Yeah, we know her surprisingly little about her given how famous she is.

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