Weir, Alison, 1951-

The captive queen : a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine / Alison Weir. - Large print ed. - Bath : Windsor/Paragon, 2010. - 676 p. (large print) : geneal. table, map ; 24 cm.

Originally published: London: Hutchinson.

It is 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty is riding southwards. She is leaving behind her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage to Louis of France. The woman is Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, and her sole purpose 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 which will create the devil's brood of Plantagenets - including Richard Coeur de Lion and King John - and the most notoriously tempestuous marriage in history.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?-1204 --Fiction.


Large type books.


Great Britain--History--Henry II, 1154-1189--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Richard I, 1189-1199--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Plantagenets, 1154-1399--Fiction.


Historical fiction.