"Richard the Lionhearted, inspired by a vision of the Holy Land, led his knights onto the battlefields of the Third Crusade.... Richard's life was intertwined with the lives of two... women who loved him -- Berengaria, princess of Navarre, and his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine.... But it is Blondel, the king's lute player, who here steps forward from the shadows to tell this tale of romance, war, and betrayal"--P. 4 of cover.

A biography of the woman whose marriage to King Henry VIII of England resulted in an irreversible break between the Church of England and the Papacy, the birth of the future Queen Elizabeth I, and in her own beheading.