BAM doesn’t answer to her real name's Reviews > Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine

The book begins with Eleanor's divorce from King Louis of France. It is known that she was quite the unfaithful wife and was not at all physically attracted to him. She did her duty twice to breed an heir only to give birth to two daughters. Louis, regardless of her behavior, was actually quite in love with Eleanor, but eventually acquiesced to her wishes. Upon separation she reclaimed her duchy of Aquitaine. Soon after she married King Henry of England, a man who also could meet her marital expectations.
But GOOD LORD!!! Can they just stop having sex for a minute?????
I never knew Alison Weir wrote this sort of book. What happened to the history? She has turned one of the most notorious, powerful queens of medieval England into a frivolous, vapid, horny piece of fluff.


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