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Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Mother Queen by Desmond Seward
Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Mother Queen

Desmond Seward

Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Mother Queen

Desmond Seward

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"In King John, Shakespeare portrayed Eleanor as a 'canker'd grandam', governed by lust for power, who schemed against her husband Henry II- a crime for which she spent fifteen years in prison- and dominated her children's lives, ruthlessly turning...

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