Pat M. J. reviewed on 6/18/2012 + 66 more book reviews

Jean Plaidy's story of Eleanor of Aquitaine's Life and Loves is must reading for a view of the remarkable Duchess's influence over much of her long life as royal
consort twice and -always- the Duchess of the vast Aquitaine holding in France. Starting with Eleanor at five years in the court of her Grandfather William IX, the author illustrates her decades of love won and lost, to her 80th year when she stands aghast to know that her line of sons ends with the treacherous and monstrous John,who ascends the throne when Richard is killed and whom she could not defeat nor displace now in her dotage. Instead she retreats to a favored place, Fontrevault, the same place where her beloved Richard, King of England and her favorite son had been buried.

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