Eleanor, crown jewel of Aquitaine

By Kristiana Gregory

Subjects: Kings, queens, rulers, Childhood and youth, Heads of state, Diaries, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: Author of the best-selling Royal Diaries title, Cleopatra VII, Kristiana Gregory now takes readers to twelfth-century France and introduces Eleanor of Aquitaine, who becomes queen at age 15. Fourteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine lives in a castle in Poitier, France, with her father Count William of Aquitaine (son of William the Conqueror), and her 12-year-old sister Petronilla.