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We all know that, in spite of primogeniture, he was passed over as Richard I's heir in favor of his late father's younger brother John in large part due to Eleanor of Aquitaine despising his mother Constance, the Duchess of Brittany. But what if the Queen Mother of England had either learned to get along with Constance OR had had her son's posthumous son kidnapped soon after birth and raised him herself? Could Eleanor weighing in favor of Arthur somehow tipped the scales for there to have been a KING Arthur AND possibly having England and Brittany become a single nation rather than Brittany eventually being taken over by France?
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