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The Captive Queen

By: Alison Weir
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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It is the year 1152, and a beautiful woman of 30, 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.

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. Theirs is a union founded on lust, which will create a great empire stretching from the wilds of Scotland to the Pyrenees. 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.

The Captive Queen is a novel on a grand scale, an epic subject for Alison Weir. 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.

©2010 Alison Weir (P)2010 Random House Audiobooks Fiction Historical Fiction Royalty King England Marriage France Tudor

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"Weir sweeps the listener into The Captive Queen… a story that never grows old." ( Daily Express)

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Better books on Eleanor of Aquitaine out there…

The narration was great, but there are better books on Eleanor of Aquitaine. It focused on her captivity, the woman was Queen of France and then England and Duchess in her own right! Definitely more interesting interpretations of her life to be read

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