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THIS IS HISTORY — A DYNASTY TO DIE FOR

Season 1 | 1. Queen on The Run

THIS IS HISTORY — A DYNASTY TO DIE FOR

Sony Music

History, Society & Culture

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This episode contains descriptions of violence or sexual content that may not be suitable for all listeners.  Until yesterday, Eleanor of Aquitaine was the queen of France. Now, divorced and dethroned, she’s running for her life. Noblemen are lying in wait to capture her and lay claim to her lands. But, if she can escape them, and reach her destination in time, she’ll become more powerful than ever before. This is the beginning of the bloodiest dynasty in European history.  This is History is a Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production.  Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts  To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com  Written and presented by Dan Jones Producer - Rosie Merotra Series Producer and Story Editor -  Georgia Mills Executive  Producer -  Dave Anderson Executive Producer - Peggy Sutton Production Manager - Jen Mistri Composer -  Matt Acheson Sound Design and Mixing - Chris O’Shaugnessy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Before we start, just a quick warning for this episode contains descriptions of violence

0:11.2

or sexual content that may not be suitable for all listeners.

0:16.6

It's a bright spring morning.

0:21.0

A young woman rides out of the gates of Bozhonsea, a town in the shadow of a huge newly built stone

0:28.2

castle on the banks of the River Law in France.

0:34.3

She's in a hurry.

0:35.8

Her freedom and the whole course of the rest of her life depends on whether she can move

0:40.5

fast enough.

0:42.9

She takes with her only a handful of her closest attendants and servants.

0:48.2

People she trusts with her life.

0:51.4

She doesn't take her two little daughters, seven-year-old Marie and Alex, who's only

0:57.5

one.

0:59.9

She knows that in leaving them she may never see them again, but she has no choice.

1:06.0

She also leaves behind something else that tugs her heartstrings.

1:11.0

Something taken from her just days before.

1:14.6

Her crown.

1:21.7

The year is 1152.

1:24.2

And for fifteen years this young woman has been queen of France.

1:28.8

The wife of King Louis VII, one of Europe's most powerful rulers.

1:34.0

But now all that is over.

1:37.2

Her marriage to the king is broken down to the point that even counselling sessions with

1:41.0

the Pope, obviously the world's leading relationship guru, have failed to bring them

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