Isabella of Angoulême - Lainé, Erica
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Set in the thirteenth century, the kingdoms of England and France continue to struggle over territory. King John's widow, Isabella of Angoulême, Queen of England is ignored and unwanted by the English court. She moves back to France to claim her inheritance. The English councillors expect her to be biddable to them and to guard these lands for King Henry III, her nine-year-old son. But in the Poitou, a region far from Paris and London, local fiefdoms ignore all forms of authority. The Tangled Queen is the story of Isabella's determination to forge her own powerful domain. She has to face…mehr

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Set in the thirteenth century, the kingdoms of England and France continue to struggle over territory. King John's widow, Isabella of Angoulême, Queen of England is ignored and unwanted by the English court. She moves back to France to claim her inheritance. The English councillors expect her to be biddable to them and to guard these lands for King Henry III, her nine-year-old son. But in the Poitou, a region far from Paris and London, local fiefdoms ignore all forms of authority. The Tangled Queen is the story of Isabella's determination to forge her own powerful domain. She has to face forceful men who would stop her at every turn. She intrigues and plots to make her dream a reality and she learns to play all sides against each other. Isabella's second controversial marriage is one full of passion, pride and politics. Treachery becomes second nature as her ambitions soar. She must be unassailable.
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Erica Lainé was born in Southampton in 1943 and originally studied for the theatre at the Arts Educational School in Tring. She worked as a library assistant in London and trained as a speech and drama teacher before moving with her family to Hong Kong in 1977. Here she worked for the British Council for twenty years as a teacher and educational project manager.Since 1997 she has lived in south-west France where she became interested in all sorts of historical research and writing, as President of the Aquitaine Historical Society. This led to a focus on Isabella of Angoulême and her life and times. The Aquitaine region is rich in English and French history and Isabella is a person who was woven into both. Erica has begun writing part two of 'The Tangled Queen' which will show how Isabella played all sides against each other and how her intrigues became part of the beginning of the Hundred Years' War.