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Set resistant to the splendor and scheming of the Middle Age groups, this enthralling historical book brings alive the spectacular Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman far before her time and one of history's most remarkable queens Tumultuous. Passionate. Timeless. The matrimony between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry Plantagenet was like no other, blessed of electric power, politics, and an all-consuming, fiery love. Within 2 yrs with their wedding, Henry conquered Britain and jointly they ruled an enormous kingdom. Initially they did the trick to unify and repair their war-torn lands - before being torn aside by intrigue, adultery, and fatal revenge. Henry II dreams of enacting a fresh judicial system, a law that would help foster calmness. But a damaging betrayal by his closest confidante, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, thrusts Henry into a rivalry that threatens to rip church and express aside. Eleanor, an completed ruler in her own right, steps directly into help Henry quell the rebellions across their lands. But when she learns of her husband's magic formula relationship with the reasonable, young Rosamund de Clifford, it shatters her heart and soul and ignites a bitter vengeance that will engulf their family in treachery and betrayal. As Eleanor can take the side of her sons against their father, these young royals, chafing for electric power of their own, wreak havoc over the continent, igniting a warfare whose tragic outcomes Eleanor could never have foreseen.
