Feisty or what? An able and forceful queen, a beautiful, passionate woman (who resented her first husband, Louis VII of France, for being ‘more monk than king’, and her second, Henry II of England, for his persistent infidelities), and mother of Richard Coeur de Lion and John. A fascinating account by local author Alison Weir of one woman’s spirit in the ups and downs of twelfth century royal and political life, including a crusade – at a time when women weren’t expected to do this kind of thing.