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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Historical fiction

• Full title: Captive Queen
• Author: Alison Weir
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528
• EAN: 9780099534587
• ISBN: 0099534584
• ID: 04375798
• Publisher: Cornerstone
• Weight: 358 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. July 2011

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