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Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England's Medieval Queens

By Alison Weir Jonathan Cape, £25, hardback, 496 pages

Alison Weir is one of history's biggest names, and reliably offers intimate, insightful portraits of some of the past's most fascinating characters. Here she applies that lens to five queen consorts of the Plantagenet period: Marguerite of France,

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