The Captive Queen Alison Weir Arrow Books Ltd

It is the year 1152, and a beautiful woman rides through France, fleeing her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage.Her husband, Louis of France has been more monk than monarch, and certainly not a lover. Now Eleanor of Aquitaine has one sole purpose: to return to her duchy and marry the man she loves, Henry Plantagenet, destined for greatness as King of England. It will be a union founded on lust, renowned as one of the most vicious marriages in history, and it will go on to forge a great empire and a devilish brood. This is a story of the making of nations, and of passionate conflicts: between Henry II and Thomas Becket; 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. Σελίδες: 528, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm