Heir today, gone tomorrow?

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Heir today, gone tomorrow?

Edited by Kate Green

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Country Life Magazine

03 September, 2025

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In brief

Alice Loxton EleanorA 200-mile walk in search of England’slost queen352pp. Pan Macmillan. £22. Many are commemorated in stone, but few so grandly as Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290). Following her unexpec