Queen of dreams

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Queen of dreams

Britain’s ‘curious’ relationship with royalty

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The TLS Magazine

20 September, 2024

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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

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