
It is the year 1152 & a beautiful woman rides through France fleeing her crown her two young daughters & a shattered marriage Her husband Louis of France has been more monk than monarch & certainly not a lover Now Eleanor of Aquitaine has one sole purpose to return to her duchy & marry the man she loves Henry Plantagenet destined for greatness as King of England It will be a union founded on lust renowned as one of the most vicious marriages in history & it will go on to forge a great empire & a devilish brood This is a story of the making of nations & of passionate conflicts between Henry II & Thomas Becket; between Eleanor & Henry's formidable mother Matilda; between father & sons as Henry's children take up arms against him
- & finally between Henry & Eleanor herself