num_pages: 478
description: Nearing her thirtieth birthday Eleanor of Aquitaine has spent the past dozen frustrating years as wife to the pious King Louis VII of France. But when Henry of Anjou the young and dynamic future king of England arrives at the French court he and the seductive Eleanor experience a mutual passion powerful enough to ignite the world. Indeed after the annulment of Eleanors marriage to Louis and her remarriage to Henry the union of this royal couple creates a vast empire that stretches from the Scottish border to the Pyreneesand marks the beginning of the celebrated Plantagenet dynasty. But Henry and Eleanors marriage charged with physical heat begins a fiery downward spiral marred by power struggles and bitter betrayals. Amid the rivalries and infidelities the couples rebellious sons grow impatient for power and the scene is set for a vicious and tragic conflict that will threaten to engulf them all.
language: English
title: Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
publisher: Ballantine Books