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S3.82 Play-Offs: Semi-Final D

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It's the last of the semi-finals - who will be the final consort to make it to the Grand Final? Your contenders this week: Æthelflæd Lady of the Mercians, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Caroline of Ansbach. Rank them in order and help decide who makes it to the final! You have until Friday 30 May 23:59 (BST) to vote. Cast your vote via the link below: https://forms.gle/w4nx1fxU86ZVeBME9 Sign up for lots of bonus content, including play-off extras such as a prize draw for a Zoom chat with Ali and Graham, a mini-play-off for the consorts who nearly got the Rex Factor, and to vote for what we do in series 4. All that and more here: https://www.patreon.com/rexfactor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rex Factor.

0:10.0

This week, semi-final D!

0:18.0

With your host's Graham Duke and Ali Bo.

0:24.6

Hello.

0:25.6

Hello.

0:26.6

And welcome to Rex Factor, where we have reviewed all the Queen of Prince Consorts of England, from Elswith to Prince Philip, and we are now into the final semi-final in the playoffs to determine the season three champion.

0:38.7

19 Rex Factor winners across the series.

0:41.5

Seven were eliminated in the first round and the final 12 have been split into four

0:46.4

semifinals.

0:47.2

Each one with three consorts and only one consort in each semifinal will progress to the

0:52.7

grand final.

0:55.0

This is, um, this, I think will be straightforward, but we'll see.

1:03.8

Hmm.

1:04.7

Now, it's going to be like the first round in which there are three electoral colleges who will determine the results. I am an electoral

1:12.1

college. I am an electoral college. And you, the listener, are also an electoral college. So we combine

1:20.6

our rankings. We rank them from first to third and those combined scores from that will produce

1:24.9

the overall winner. The difference in the semi-final is that we are reducing the weight of my vote and Ali's vote. So we will effectively

1:31.5

have half marks this time. So we will still be able to influence the rankings and the results,

1:38.4

but with a bit less force than we had in the first round. That's because the grand final

1:43.4

will be entirely by the public vote and with only one

1:46.4

going through with only three in each group, if you and I accidentally end up voting in the

1:51.6

same way, we would inadvertently effectively nullify the public vote and it feels weird

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