![]() ![]() ![]() It will also create the devil's brood of Plantagenets - including Richard Ci?ur de Lion and King John - and the most notoriously vicious marriage in history. Theirs is a union founded on lust which will create a great empire stretching from the wilds of Scotland to the Pyrenees. ![]() This woman is Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, and her sole purpose now is to return to her vast duchy and marry the man she loves, Henry Plantagenet, a man destined for greatness as King of England. It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty, attended by only a small armed escort, is riding like the wind southwards through what is now France, leaving behind her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage to Louis of France, who had been more like a monk than a king, and certainly not much of a lover. ![]()
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