Review: The Lost Queen by Carol McGrath
Today, I'm delighted to share my review for The Lost Queen – a novel about elusive Berengaria of Navarre – by Carol McGrath . Have a look! My thanks to Rachel's Random Resources and Headline Accent for a copy. The Lost Queen Carol McGrath Having read and enjoyed The Stolen Crown last year, I've been looking forward to reading about Richard the Lionheart's queen – Berengaria of Navarre. Not that much is known about Richard's wife, and with discussions about his sexuality ongoing, she seems to have been pushed into the background even further. So it's fantastic that the poor, historically-neglected lady gets a fictional outing in The Lost Queen. In the novel, we meet not one, but two remarkable heroines: Berengaria and Lady Avelina of Middleton. Both are thrown together on their journey, and their fates interlink from that moment onwards. Dowager Queen Eleanor (famously of Aquitaine) is accompanying young Berengaria from her home to Sicily, where she is to marry
