The Lost Queen av Carol McGrath

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<p>''<b>Well researched, elegantly written,</b> with <b>a deft touch for both romance and historical detail</b>. <i>The Lost Queen</i> is <b>a gripping historical drama to be savoured</b>'' ANNE O''BRIEN<br><br>''An <b>excellent read</b>, <b>meticulously researched, beautifully told</b>. <b>Berengaria is a delicious heroine</b>, thoroughly engaging, a refreshingly unusual viewpoint for this epic tale'' JANE JOHNSON<br><br><b>1191 and the Third Crusade is underway . . .</b><br><br>It is 1191 and King Richard the Lionheart is on crusade to pitch battle against Saladin and liberate the city of Jerusalem and her lands. His mother, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine and his promised bride, Princess Berengaria of Navarre, make a perilous journey over the Alps in midwinter. They are to rendezvous with Richard in the Sicilian port of Messina. <br><br>There are hazards along the way - vicious assassins, marauding pirates, violent storms and a shipwreck. Berengaria is as feisty as her foes and,