If you’ve read Death at the School of Translators, you’ve met Eleanor of Aquitaine—the queen who sets Rebecca’s entire adventure in motion and pulls all the strings from beginning to end. Eleanor was the great English/French queen who wasn’t supposed to rule, but ended up being better at it than most men. Queen Eleanor by Frederick Sandys, 1858. Image: National Museum Wales She grew up surrounded by poetry, thanks to her grandfather the troubadour, and was fascinated by the k