A powerful queen on the chessboard of Europe

The Spectator | October 23, 1999| | Copyright

ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE

by Alison Weir

Cape, L20, pp. 444

While her achievements have always been recognised, Eleanor on the whole had an unjustly bad press until Bishop Stubbs declared, a century ago, that

this great lady deserves to be treated with more honour and respect than she has generally met with . . . a very able woman of great tact and experience, and still greater ambition; a most important adviser while she continued to support her husband; a most dangerous enemy in opposition.

Born in 1122, she lived until 1204, an astonishing life-span for that time. As a child she learned to ...

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