A top ten bestselling novelist and historian recreates in fiction the most extraordinary and tempestuous marriage in history
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.
Product code: 9780099534587
| ISBN |
9780099534587 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H199xW130xS32 |
| No. Of Pages |
528 |
| Publisher |
Cornerstone |