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Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Series: Random House Reader's Circle
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ISBN10: 0345511883
ISBN13: 9780345511881
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Apr 19 2011
Pages: 544
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780345511881
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Apr 19 2011
Pages: 544
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A vibrant historical novel (Marie Claire) that brings vividly to life England's most passionate--and destructive--royal couple: Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II, from the New York Times bestselling author hailed as the finest historian of English monarchical succession writing (The Boston Globe) Stunning . . . Weir renders the bona fide plot twists of her heroine's life with all the mastery of a thriller author, marrying historical fact with licentious fiction.--The Star Tribune
Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor of Aquitaine has spent the past dozen frustrating years as wife to the pious King Louis VII of France. But when Henry of Anjou, the young and dynamic future king of England, arrives at the French court, he and the seductive Eleanor experience a mutual passion powerful enough to ignite the world. Indeed, after the annulment of Eleanor's marriage to Louis and her remarriage to Henry, the union of this royal couple creates a vast empire that stretches from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees--and marks the beginning of the celebrated Plantagenet dynasty. But Henry and Eleanor's marriage, charged with physical heat, begins a fiery downward spiral marred by power struggles and bitter betrayals. Amid the rivalries and infidelities, the couple's rebellious sons grow impatient for power, and the scene is set for a vicious and tragic conflict that will threaten to engulf them all.
Vivid in detail, epic in scope, Captive Queen is a sensuous and tempestuous tale that encompasses the building of an empire and the monumental story of a royal marriage.
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