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It's 1152 and we meet Eleanor of Aquitaine as the beautiful, vigorous, wilful twenty-nine-year-old Queen of France. She is unhappy in her marriage and before a chapter or two are out, she's riding across the French countryside, annulment in hand and leaving her two daughters behind, on her way to a new husband and a partnership that will become one of the most famous in history.
Together, Eleanor and Henry II oversaw a huge empire that stretched from southern France to northern England. They had nine children, two of whom became King of England. Eleanor herself was most unlike other noblewomen of her day and the marriage to Henry was tumultuous, leading to affairs, rebellion and imprisonment. ''The Captive Queen'' tells Eleanor's story from the day she met Henry. If ever there was a great woman to write an historical novel about, Eleanor of Aquitaine is she.
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