Book description
Marguerite, eldest daughter of the Count of Provence, had married a
king of France - and now her sister Eleanor is determined to make just
as grand a match.
Good fortune and wily cunning bring her Henry of England. A good and
generous husband but a weak king, he rules a nation that still
remembers his cruel and foolish father, King John. As Henry showers
gifts on his new bride his extravagance forces him to levy ever
greater taxation on the land, and the spectre of revolt soon looms
against him. For Simon de Montfort, the adventurer who will give
England its first true parliament, the house of destiny is at hand.
Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for
most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English
author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's novels
had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death
in 1993.
