ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALISON WEIR is the New York Timesbestselling author of the novels Innocent Traitorand The Lady Elizabethand several historical biographies, including The Lady in the Tower, Mistress of the Monarchy, Queen Isabella, Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and The Six Lives of Henry VIII. She lives in Surrey, England, with her husband and two children.

Captive Queenis a work of historical fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2010 by Alison Weir

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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Originally published by Hutchinson, a division of Random House Group Limited, London.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Weir, Allison.

Captive queen : a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine / Alison Weir.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-345-52195-8

1. Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?–1204—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—Henry II, 1154–1189—Fiction. 3. France—History—Louis VII, 1137–1180—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6123.E36C37 2010

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