About the book: year / Queen Eleanor, or Alienor, of Aquitaine is often compared to Helen the Beautiful. Partly this is fair, partly it simply belittles the talents and merits of this outstanding woman. She amazingly combined the sobriety of a politician and boundless passion. She was a wonderful mother to some children, but a bad one - for various reasons - to others. Eleanor fearlessly went on a crusade with her first husband, King Louis VII of France, and for the sake of her love, offended by her second husband, King Henry II of England, she put the integrity of the state at stake. Finally, she raised the most famous king of the English Middle Ages - Richard the Lionheart. The next book in the series tells about the fate of this extraordinary woman.