This month please join us in exploring the love stories of the past.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing with you our chats to various historians and we’ll be covering all the ways that Royals can come together, be it through arranged marriage, secret engagements or chance meetings.

On this, the first episode of our Valentines series of 2025, we’re focussing on the Iconic Power Couples of the royal circle.

Let’s take a look at three couples: Eleanor of Aquitaine & Henry II of England, Eleanor of Castile & Edward I and Isabel of Castile & Fernando of Aragon.

To help us understand these couples better, we've enlisted Sharon Bennett Connolly and Heather R Darsie.

Sharon Bennett Connolly has written many books about medieval women, let’s ask her about the two Eleanor couples.

Heather R Darsie has just finished her Katharine of Aragon book, which is convenient, because we’ll be talking about Kat's parents.

Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon:

https://www.amberley-books.com/heroines-of-the-medieval-world-9781445689449.html

Women of the Anarchy by Sharon:

https://www.amberley-books.com/discover-books/women-of-the-anarchy.html

Sharon's Website:

https://historytheinterestingbits.com/silk-and-the-sword-the-women-of-the-norman-conquest/

Pre-Order Heather's New Book on Katherine of Aragon:

https://www.amberley-books.com/author-community-main-page/d/community-heather-r-darsie/katherine-of-aragon-spanish-princess.html

Heather's Website:

https://maidensandmanuscripts.com/

For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/

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