Download or read book The Winter Crown written by Elizabeth Chadwick and published by Sourcebooks Landmark. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick is back with the highly anticipated second book in her Eleanor of Aquitane trilogy In 1154, Eleanor, Queen of England, emerges as one of the most celebrated women in 12th-century Europe. As her husband, Henry II, rules over their vast empire, she tends to their children and longs for the ability make the major decisions that could expand their lands and improve the lives of their people. Her intense desire for power and her relentless demands infuriate her husband and create an intense battle of wills. Eleanor soon learns that to seize the sovereignity she needs, she will have to make a bid for independence—an act that could have disastrous consequences.