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.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:37:43 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1125324 Boxid_2 BWB220141015 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. This is a story of the making of nations, and of passionate conflicts: between Henry II and Thomas Becket between Eleanor and Henrys formidable mother Matilda.
The Captive Queen is a novel on the grand scale, an epic subject for Alison Weir. It will also create the devil's brood of Plantagenets - including Richard Cœur de Lion and King John - and the most notoriously vicious marriage in history. Her husband, Louis of France has been more monk than monarch, and certainly not a lover. Theirs is a union founded on lust which will create a great empire stretching from the wilds of Scotland to the Pyrenees. The Captive Queen by Alison Weir It is the year 1152, and a beautiful woman rides through France, fleeing her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage. 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. 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.
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