Title: The Battle of the Queens
First published: January 1983
Description: The first half of the thirteenth century is dominated by two women, as proud and ambitious as they were beautiful, yet different in all other qualities. Isabella is flamboyant and passionate, a medieval Helen of Troy - wife to King John and mother to Henry III...Blanche of Castile is the serene and virtuous Queen of France, wife of Louis VIII and mother of Louis IX...The two women hated each other on sight. Isabella would stop at nothing, not even murder, in her passion to destroy the French Queen.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, general
Places: England, Great Britain, France
People: Isabella Queen, consort of John, King of England (d. 1246), Blanche of Castile, Queen, consort of Louis VIII, King of France (1188-1252)
Time periods: 12th Century