Captive Queen

Title	The Captive Queen
Author	Alison Weir
Publisher	HUTCHINSON, 2010
ISBN	0091926211, 9780091926212
Length	400 pages

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Book overview

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, 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. This 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 C ur de Lion and King John and the most notoriously vicious marriage in history. The Eagle and the Lion is a novel on the grand scale, an epic subject for Alison Weir. It tells of the making of nations, and of passionate conflicts: between Henry II and Thomas Becket, his closest friend who is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on his orders; between Eleanor and Henry s formidable mother Matilda; between father and sons, as Henry s children take up arms against him; and finally between Henry and Eleanor herself.

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"Who will rid me of this turbulent queen?"
User Review - Luan Gaines "luansos" - Amazon.com -
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"Who will rid me of this turbulent queen?"
User Review - Luan Gaines "luansos" - Amazon.com -
In 1202 the eighty-two-year old Eleanor of Aquitaine is at last ready to meet her Maker, nine of her eleven children dead before her, Henry II long in the grave after a brilliant reign, tumultuous ...

Entertaining look at the life of Henry and Eleanor
User Review - Lesley West - Amazon.com -
Alison Weir has written a very entertaining novel of the turbulent life that Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine spent together, ruling the greatest empire in Christendom. She paints Eleanor as a ...

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User Review - Christy English - Goodreads -
I am so excited to read this...Alison Weir's biography on Eleanor is a touchstone of mine...I can't wait to see how she tells Eleanor's story in fiction. How can I wait until July?

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