Queens of the Crusades

Historian Alison Weir tells the story of England's first five Plantagenet queens who played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history.

Hear about Eleanor of Aquitaine (wife of Henry II), Berengaria of Navarre (wife of Richard the Lionheart), Isabella of Angouleme (wife of King John), Alienor of Provence (wife of Henry III), and Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I, all five determined women who often broke through medieval restrictions to exercise power and influence, for good and sometimes for ill.