In memory of my cousin, Sheila Llewellyn.
Cover illustrations: Tower of London (iStockphoto/Songquan Deng); Eleanor as she may have looked in about 1462. An image based on the 1996 facial reconstruction of CFII (© Mark Satchwill, 2008)
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