# The Captive Queen

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/alison-weir/the-captive-queen

![The Captive Queen](https://quivercdn.com/covers/arrow/alison-weir/the-captive-queen_978-00-9953-458-7.jpg?v=2026-04-22%2012%3A44%3A09)

- Authors: [Alison Weir](https://www.bookquiver.com/alison-weir)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-07-07

## Description

It is the year 1152, and a beautiful woman rides through France, fleeing her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage. Her husband, Louis of France has been more monk than monarch, and certainly not a lover. Now Eleanor of Aquitaine has one sole purpose: to return to her duchy and marry the man she loves, Henry Plantagenet, destined for greatness as King of England. It will be a union founded on lust, renowned as one of the most vicious marriages in history, and it will go on to forge a great empire and a devilish brood. This is a story of the making of nations, and of passionate conflicts: between Henry II and Thomas Becket; between Eleanor and Henry's formidable mother Matilda; between father and sons, as Henry's children take up arms against him - and finally between Henry and Eleanor herself.

## Editions

### The Captive Queen

- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9953-458-7
- Pages: 528
- Published: 2011-07-07
- Language: en_GB