Captive queen
a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
by Alison Weir
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"It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty, attended by only a small armed escort, is riding like the wind southwards through what is now France. She is leaving behind her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage to Louis of France, who had been more like a monk than a king, and certainly not much of a lover. The woman is Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, and her sole purpose now is to return to her vast duchy and marry the man she loves, Henry Plantagenet, a man destined for greatness as King of England. Theirs is a union founded on lust, which will create a great empire stretching from the wilds of Scotland to the Pyrenees. It will also create the devil's brood of Plantagenets -- including Richard Cœur de Lion and King John -- and one of the most notoriously tempestuous marriage in history."--Publisher.
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Captive queen: a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
2010, Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
in English
- Large print ed.
1410429261 9781410429261
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The captive queen: a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
2010, Windsor
in English
1408486865 9781408486863
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Captive queen: a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
2010, Ballantine Books
in English
1611292824 9781611292824
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