Two Eleanors of Henry III

This account of two strong medieval women and their relationship "e;thoroughly engrosses you in a story hundreds of years past"e;(Seattle Book Review). Born in 1223, Eleanor of Provence has come to England at the age of twelve to marry the king, Henry III. He's sixteen years older, but was a boy when he ascended the throne. He's a kind, sensitive sort whose only personal attachments to women so f...