![]() Years before what would today be marriageable age, royal girls were despatched to countries whose speech was unknown to them and there became the property of unknown men their duty the bearing of sons to continue a dynasty and daughters who would be traded in their turn. If princes fought for their succession to crowns, the princesses were traded - usually by their mothers - to strangers for political power without the bloodshed. Their daughters also lived extraordinary lives. Henry grabbed the English throne thanks largely to Eleanor's dowry because she owned one third of France. ![]() Although academically labelled 'medieval', their era was the violent transition from the Dark Ages, when countries' borders were defined with fire and sword. The names of few medieval monarchs and their queens are better known than Eleanor of Aquitaine, uniquely queen of France and queen of England, and her second husband Henry II. ![]()
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