Queen of Love

Name: Queen of Love
Rating: 3.78 (104 reviews)

by Christopher Nicole Book 2 in the Eleanor of Aquitaine Saga series.

First published 1995

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The marriage of Henry of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, and Eleanor of Aquitaine was the sensation of the medieval world... Henry was the son of the most feared woman in Europe; a woman reputedly descended from the devil - Empress Matilda. Still only in his teens, but a man of overweening ambition and unbridled passion, Henry was destined to become King of England. Meanwhile, Eleanor, divorced queen of France, twelve years older than her husband, yet at the peak of her beauty, knew that she too was destined for great things.

Though her reputation had been tarnished by her amorous affairs in Palestine during the Second Crusade, she was still the richest heiress in Europe. From the highs and lows of her tumultuous marriage, to her strong relationships with her ten children, Eleanor carved out a position of great authority for herself. Not to mention an epic legacy. The sequel covers Eleanor’s second marriage, the creation of the Angevin realm and the conflicts produced by Henry’s rule and their children, presenting love, patronage and rebellion as inseparable from dynastic government.