Let it be known, right up front, that I do not like history. If it happened yesterday it is too old for me to care about. That being said, I must admit that I just finished a wonderful historical novel, Captive Queen by Alison Weir. This is a novel about Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman whose name I vaguely remember hearing in some history class that I was forced to take…probably in high school. I had no clue what she did, who she married, who her children were….nothing, she was just a name to me and I couldn’t care less about her. NOW I know who she was, who she married and who her children were. There is no doubt in my mind that anyone reading this review knows more about Eleanor of Aquitaine than I did so I will skip telling about her life and times. I enjoyed this book because Eleanor was a unique and fascinating woman. She was strong, intelligent and very much in love and lust with her second husband Henry, the future King of England. This is a story of love, passion, loss, grief, politics and war. I highly recommend it to all who never really liked history.