April Queen (64 page)

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 The magnificent audience hall built by Eleanor and Henry for the court in Poitiers. The doorway on the left at the head of steps leads to Eleanor’s apartments.

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 The richly carved porch of Poitiers Cathedral, built under Henry’s and Eleanor’s patronage.

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 Eleanor’s décor: these twelfth-century floor tiles from Aquitaine resemble those the queen commissioned for the palace of Clarendon.

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 Altar cross in Limoges enamel from La Sauve Majeure, given to the abbey by Eleanor or Richard.

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 The contemporary fresco in St Radegonde chapel, Chinon depicting the end of rebellion in 1174. Henry leads away Eleanor, his prisoner; Joanna pleads for peace between her parents.

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 Henry triumphant.

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 Eleanor hands the gyrfalcon, emblem of Aquitaine, to Richard.

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 Eleanor’s sons desert her: Richard takes the falcon, and Geoffrey copies his father’s gesture, meaning, ‘I obey you’.

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 Chinon Castle. The Tour du Moulin, probably Eleanor’s first prison, is on the far left.

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 The ruins of Châlus Castle, with its circular keep on right, from where the fatal crossbow bolt was fired.

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 Aerial view of Old Sarum, where Eleanor was locked up for the best part of fifteen years. The castle ruins are in centre; the foundations of the first cathedral are visible within the outer fortifications.

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 Killed by greed: the Lionheart’s effigy at Fontevraud.

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 England’s first virgin queen? Berengaria’s effigy at L’Epau, the abbey she founded near Le Mans.