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1
 The mystery girl at Fontevraud: Eleanor or Blanche?

2
 Queen of France, aged fifteen: Eleanor’s hidden head in Bordeaux Cathedral.

3
 The proud pagan queen: Eleanor in her early twenties at Chartres Cathedral.

4
 Eleanor, Henry’s prisoner, aged fifty-two.

5
 The tragic head at Fontevraud: Eleanor aged seventy-eight.

6
 The ill-matched couple: Eleanor and Louis in the Portail Royal at Chartres.

7
 The golden Virgin of Beaulieu, paragon of twelfth-century feminine virtue.

8
 Louis on his wedding day: Eleanor’s ‘I married a monk’ says it all.

9
 Geoffroi de Lauroux savouring his political triumph at the royal wedding in Bordeaux.

10
 Polychrome enamel funeral plaque of Henry’s father, Geoffrey the Fair.

11
 Eleanor’s state apartments in the Maubergeonne Tower at Poitiers.