The Dragon And the Jewel (1991)
The Dragon And the Jewel
“They had only the clothes on their backs, and even Eleanor’s trousseau consisted of gowns made over from her mother and sisters. And yet the lowliest of these Provençals with patched elbows arrived with such a superior attitude they sneered at everything English from the weather to the culture, or lack of it, as they never tired of pointing out.
Henry rushed to Dover to escort his bride the fifteen miles to Canterbury where they were to be married immediately by the archbishop. The king was enthralled by her ivory skin and dark golden hair. Plantagenets never did things by half, and so completely in character, Henry fell wholly in love with the sophisticated beauty who set about to enslave him and hold him prisoner for the rest of his life.
Though the Provençal court was poor, it was the center of European culture, literature, and music. Eleanor had her own Court of Honor for troubadors and a Court of Love for her knights, and the entire cavalcade was boistrously noisy and rang with y...outhful laughter.MoreLess
Henry rushed to Dover to escort his bride the fifteen miles to Canterbury where they were to be married immediately by the archbishop. The king was enthralled by her ivory skin and dark golden hair. Plantagenets never did things by half, and so completely in character, Henry fell wholly in love with the sophisticated beauty who set about to enslave him and hold him prisoner for the rest of his life.
Though the Provençal court was poor, it was the center of European culture, literature, and music. Eleanor had her own Court of Honor for troubadors and a Court of Love for her knights, and the entire cavalcade was boistrously noisy and rang with y...outhful laughter.MoreLess
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