The depiction of queens in historical fiction is a popular format, bringing often familiar figures to a new audience and providing an insight into a fictionalised historical setting. The representations of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Isabella of Angoul锚me, both queens of England in the twelfth and...
Princess. Marriage Prize. Prisoner. Eleanor of Brittany is sent to live in the household of her esteemed grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and brought up expecting to be the bride of a powerful prince. But when the marriage proposed for her as part of Richard Lionheart’s ransom falls throug...
Justin was awestruck at sight of the abbey. At first glance, it looked to be a castle carved from the very rocks of the isle, its towering spires reaching halfway to Heaven, the last bastion of Christian faith in a world of denial and disbelief. A fragment of...