Eleanor of Aquitaine was the greatest Queen of England.

Marie Antoinette was never as bad as history made her out to be.

That is all.

Interesting comment...
Wasn't Eleanor the one who caused a scandal by going on one of the crusades to help out and then ended up sleeping with her uncle?

Do you identify with her independence and freedom of thought and behavior?

Greatest Queen of England: pretty small pool of talent. Sort of like who is the greatest jewish pygmy wrestling tag team.

Marie Antionette: maybe, but she still needed to take a little off the head. And where do you get the notion she was not that bad? She almost brought the dynasty down over a necklace. She had no redeeming virtues.

Give me a down to earth liberal school teacher any day and you can have all the Marie Antoinettes you want.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine was the greatest Queen of England.

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Get ready for an ass-whippin' Tanya, Vikki is pissed!

If big momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!

All of you are wrong:

BQ78

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Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats
Next to mine

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She WAS a virgin.

And I am Otto von Bismarck

nope

neither Liz or Vicky compare to the greatness of Eleanor.

That is all

And Marie Antoinette did have redeeming values. She loved her children dearly.

Imagine being 14 a bartered on the market to teh highest bidder? Then married off to a man who had sex problems and didn't find you attractive to begin with!

I'd bet you would have self esteem problems too and compensated for that by shopping

Given that I am a male, overweight and in my 50s I would guess I would not bring much at the barter session but if someone was foolish enough I would hope he had serious sexual problems.

And if "she loved her children" is the best you can come up with, well, Hitler liked dogs and little blond children.

I still say off with her royal head

I agree with Tanya about MA (not E of A) she gets a bum rap and she never did say the famed cake line either.

Well, Marie was only modestly worse than most authoritarian ruler's wives.

Of course she was probably more moral and ethical than Napoleon's wife.