'Stunning... Weir has brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through
it - it has all the drama and suspense of a novel' Tracy Borman Crusading queens queens in
rebellion against their king queen seductresses learned queens queens in battle - the
Plantagenet queens broke through medieval constraints to exercise power and influence for good
and sometimes for ill. Beginning with the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine whose marriage to
Henry II sows the seeds for some of the most destructive family conflicts in history and ending
with Eleanor of Castile the grasping but beloved wife of Edward I Alison Weir's
ground-breaking history of the queens of medieval England provides an enthralling new
perspective on a dramatic period of high romance and sometimes low politics with determined
women at its heart.
