title: Eleanor : The Passionate Queen
author: Powers, Anne
description: Eleanor of Aquitaine: Heiress to the richest duchy of France, she ruled its hot-blooded nobles as no man ever had and reveled in the sensuous pleasures of its courts of love.
  
   The King of France: Bedazzled by the radiant beauty of his bride, the monkish Louis set Eleanor on a pedestal, but never touched her fiery heart.
  
   Henry Plantagenet: Intensely virile, relentless in his pursuit, he swept the passionate queen from her lonely throne and won her a new kingdom to rul