But the once worldly Becket suddenly discovered God, and their alliance withered in the heat of his newfound zeal. Only in one instance did Henry err: Elevating his good friend and confidant Thomas Becket to be Archbishop of Canterbury, he thought to gain control over the Church itself. Within two years, Henry had made his, winning the throne of England and exercising extraordinary statecraft skills to control his unruly barons, expand his own powers, and restore peace to a land long torn by banditry and bloodshed. It was said he was Fortune’s favorite, but he said a man makes his own luck. She was beautiful, headstrong, intelligent, and rich. He was nineteen when they married, she eleven years his senior, newly divorced from the King of France. The long-awaited sequel to Sharon Kay Penman’s acclaimed novel When Christ and His Saints Slept, Time and Chance recounts the tempestuous marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II in a magnificent story of love, power, ambition-and betrayal.
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