Presents the life of the twelfth-century ruler, who became the queen of France and then England, who was an active participant in many of the rivalries between the royal houses of the period, and was the mother of ten children, including Richard the Lionhearted.
A biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was crowned Queen of France at the age of fifteen and, a few years later, married King Henry II of England and, leading a force of her own, accompanied...
