April Queen (65 page)

25
 Effigy at Fontevraud of Isabella of Angoulême, the sensual young bride by whom King John was obsessed and whom the chroniclers castigated as ‘an animal’.

26
 Eleanor’s son John, outmatched by Philip Augustus: effigy in Worcester Cathedral.

27
 At rest in Cistercian simplicity: the Plantagenet effigies at Fontevraud Abbey.

28
 Testimonial to a sad life: the nuns’ kitchen at Fontevraud, built with Joanna’s bequest.

29
 Together in death as so rarely in life: the effigies of Eleanor and Henry at Fontevraud.

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