frimptes’s Reviews > Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe > Status Update

"[Henry and Elenore] had had to resort to their usual chicanery to try to raise funds" 😆

idk if nancy goldstone can be credited with this phrasing or if it came from somewhere else, but i’m enamored with the description that “the reviled king john had gorged himself on the unripe peaches in a fit of pique and died from the resulting dysentery.”