{"id":2939,"date":"2014-10-15T13:51:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2015-03-30T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T22:21:37","slug":"captive-queen-a-novel-of-eleanor-of-aquitane-by-alison-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"Captive Queen : A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitane by Alison Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2947 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Captive-Queen.jpg\" alt=\"Captive Queen\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I listened to this in my car this summer on my trip to and from Cape Cod.\u00a0 It was really fascinating! \u00a0And I was surprised by how &#8220;randy&#8221; a life Eleanor lived, first as the wife of King Louis VII of France and then as the wife of King Henry II of England.\u00a0 She had\u00a0two daughters with King Louis and then had\u00a0five sons and\u00a0three more daughters with King Henry.\u00a0 She was an important advisor to both her husbands.\u00a0\u00a0The political intrigue of the time was really interesting to learn. \u00a0Being so enamored of all things English, and wanting to learn even more about the key players leading up to King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, I found this story truly captivating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to this in my car this summer on my trip to and from Cape Cod.\u00a0 It was really fascinating! \u00a0And I was surprised by how &#8220;randy&#8221; a life Eleanor lived, first as the wife of King Louis VII of France and then as the wife of King Henry II of England.\u00a0 She had\u00a0two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2939\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Captive Queen : A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitane by Alison Weir<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chris-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}