![]() Waiting for her in England is her betrothed’s mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England. Though England is France’s traditional enemy, Alais goes without complaint. Motherless after the queen died upon her birth, she is her father’s favorite, but the King of France needed the peace more than he needed his daughter. It’s a dynastic marriage made to maintain the uneasy peace with England. English introduces readers to the bright and inquiring mind of Princess Alais of France starting with the day she is told she will be sent across the Channel to be raised and marry Prince Richard of England. ![]() In her first novel, The Queen’s Pawn (Penguin Group, 2010) North Carolina native Christy English brings a pivotal, yet largely unknown historical woman to life. ![]()
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