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Reared at the convent of Argenteuil, and educated to a standard not normally permitted to girls, even those of noble birth, she was sent, at the age of seventeen, to Paris, to live in the house of her uncle, who was to find her a husband of standing and enrich himself in the process.
Having published seven books over a period of only ten years how did you become interested in history? Before becoming a published author in 1989, 1 was a civil servant, and then a full-time housewife and mother.Before that she had worked as a civil servant and managed a school for children with learning difficulties. Weir`s rendering of events is valuable as a revision of earlier biographies…detailed and convincing…impressive in its breadth and clarity…[A] cogent and fascinating book.
She was scandalous as a young woman, but an absolute inspiration who showed just what a woman can achieve, and what you can do at 67! What a contribution that would be, not only to our culture but also to our understanding of history. There have been several joint biographies of Abelard and Heloise – the most recent by Jim Burge in 2003 - but the last single biography of Heloise herself was published in 1971. Her example teaches us to celebrate the wisdom and ability of older people, and to aim for an active and fulfilling life for as long as we are able.Throughout their monastic lives, Heloise and Abelard maintained a regular and often passionate correspondence. When Richard I was a prisoner of the German Emperor after failing to recapture Jerusalem in the Third Crusade, it was Eleanor who was tireless in raising the King’s exorbitant ransom, and Eleanor who travelled to Germany to hand it over and be reunited with him. An alluringly candid portrait of this most public yet elusive woman… A truly epic landscape of twelfth-century Europe in all its blood and glory. She was no shrinking violet, but a tough, capable and resourceful woman who effortlessly wielded authority over men in a male-dominated age, and won their respect. He was the first Plantagenet king, the founder of England’s most successful and longest-ruling dynasty.
He makes them kneel either side of the bed, blesses it, then they get into it and he pulls the curtains together. The novel begins with Eleanor’s marriage at thirteen years old to the future King of France and follows her eventful life as she matures through political and marital upheavals and becomes a force to be reckoned with. She had been the wife of two kings, Louis VII of France – whom she divorced – and Henry II of England; and the transfer of her domains on marriage, first to France and then to England, set the pattern for European diplomacy and warfare for the next four centuries. There are problems with it; it can be a little dull, with a lot of repetition; and honestly there are plenty of occasions when you think ‘hang on…he must be guessing there’. It stood on a small hill rising above the banks of the River Glyme, and was described by a contemporary chronicler as `King Henry`s very own private hidden retreat` - and it was as a private, hidden retreat that the palace was largely to be remembered in the centuries to come.RAYMOND is sympathetic - overly so, for he clearly finds his niece very alluring, and ELEANOR is playing up to this. Such visits did occur, yet we know nothing of the personal interactions that took place within the Angevin family during them. I am a Londoner, born and bred, although I have also lived in Norfolk and Sussex, and now reside in Surrey. Becket begins previews at the Theatre Royal on October 20 and has its official first night on October 27.
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