A King's Ransom

Authors: Sharon Kay Penman

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“After greeting the townspeople, he continued on to Canterbury, where he gave thanks at the shrine of the martyred saint Thomas Becket, and greatly pleased the Christchurch monks by declaring that he’d not wanted to enter any English church until he’d visited the mother church of Canterbury. Hubert Walter was away besieging John’s castle at Marlborough, but the prior was delighted to play host to their renowned crusader king and his venerated queen mother. It was a source of ironic amusement to ...Eleanor that after a lifetime of controversy and public disapproval, she was now acclaimed for the very qualities that had once earned her such censure. She had never wielded as much power as she had during Richard’s crusade and captivity. But none had challenged her exercise of this unique authority, for her boldness, determination, and political shrewdness—so unseemly in a wife—were deemed admirable in a mother fighting for her son.WORD OF THE KING’S RETURN swept through the shire with the speed of a wind-whipped brush fire.MoreLess Read More Read Less