A review by empheliath
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir

3.0

Not a bad book, but I was a little turned off by the fact that EVERY sex scandal surrounding the court of Henry II and Eleanor was included as fact in this telling. In the afterward, Weir mentions the influence on her of "The Lion in Winter", and that was definitely evident. I was surprised to find that somebody who's first vocation is as a historian relied so much on rumor and scandal in her fictionalized re-telling of Eleanor's story.