Devil's Bargain (2014)
“Sioned would have been surprised if he had been, but her heart persisted in being disappointed.
She made do as best she could with the court that had gathered in opposition to Richard. They were making no secret of that hostility, nor of their search for an excuse to provoke a fight. They had had hopes of one while Hugh was still in Acre, but Eleanor had driven him out of the city before he could seize it and hold it against her son.
Eleanor was no one’s best-beloved queen here. Bitch goddess and queen of harlots were the kindest words that Sioned heard. Everyone undertook to remember that she had been Queen of France first, until she had run off with a young upstart a dozen years younger than she, who had battled and intrigued his way to the throne of England. It was conveniently forgotten that the King of France had annulled the marriage on grounds that his queen had given him only daughters—and therefore, in the reckoning of kings, no issue at all.
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