Bolstered by the brilliant and energetic Thomas Beckett, Henry Plantagenet enters the grandest period of his reign, while his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine is left to frustration and depression.

The new King, intelligent, educated, and fiercely energetic, takes on the challenges of rebuilding England after the Anarchy.

The most marvelous of times for the newlyweds as Henry takes England, making an empire for the Plantagenets.

The newlyweds, Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine, are about to create the greatest kingdom in Western Europe.

Alienor of Aquitaine wins her freedom from Louis Capet and France but she won’t be single long. Henry Plantagenet waits impatiently in the wings.

The golden masks of the Fates were raised to bring Henry Plantagenet into the troubled marriage of Alienor of Aquitaine and her husband Louis Capet.

Could even the Pope himself save the troubled marriage of Louis Capet and Alienor of Aquitaine?

It’s 1148: the Second Crusade turns to the conquest of great Damascus……..but instead finds treachery and exhaustion, and melts back into the stunned disbelief of Christian Europe.

A crushed and bleeding army follows its king and queen to the comforts of Antioch.