
New in paperback - The powerful medieval couple who formed an empire beyond England, and whose children included Richard the Lionheart and King John. Henry II became King of England in 1154 after twenty years of civil war. He was the first Plantagenet king, the...

Henry II was the first Plantagenet king, the founder of England's most successful and longest ruling dynasty. But Henry did not come to the throne alone. He had married Eleanor of Aquitaine, a formidable and powerful woman 10 years his elder. Eleanor had spent 15 years married...