The Summer Queen : a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine

Chadwick, Elizabeth

The Summer Queen : a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine / Elizabeth Chadwick - Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks Inc. , c2014 - 504 p. : 21 cm - A novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine - vol 1 .

Young, golden-haired and blue-eyed Eleanor has everything to look forward to as the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her beloved father dies suddenly in the summer of 1137, her childhood is over. Forced to marry the young prince Louis of France, she barely adjusts before another death catapults them to being crowned King and Queen of France. Leaving everything behind, Eleanor must face the complex and vivacious French court. She is only 13. Barely out of childhood, and forced to deal with great scandals, fraught relationships and forbidden love at every turn, Eleanor finally sees what her future could hold if she could just seize the moment.


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9781402294068


Eleanor, of Aquitaine Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England ---1122? - 1204----Fiction


France---History---Louis VII---1137-1180----Fiction


Historical fiction
Biographical fiction

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