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assume the English throne, but only after he’s ready to trade kingship for the title of Europe’s emperor.
Neither Mom nor Dad has much use for Geoffrey, the youngest and least trustworthy of the untrustworthy sibling trio.
Every year, King Henry lets Eleanor leave her tower prison and join the Christmas court. This is the time covered in the on-stage action of The Lion in Winter, 24 hours on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This is the time that Eleanor and Henry make the new moves in their continuing chess game.
Here also for the game are Philip, King of France, and his sister, 23-year-old Alais, who is betrothed to Prince John and has been living with the Plantagenet family, her future-in-laws, since she was five. Queen Eleanor has raised the French princess, serving as her surrogate mother, and the French princess has returned the favor by having a seven-year-and-still-goingstrong affair with the queen’s husband.
Philip is visiting the castle, his aim to either reclaim his sister’s dowry — a piece of land vital to Hen
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