"'Bury me at Llanfaes....Because...I was so happy there. You came to me, forgave me'" (Chapter 1, pg. 26.)

"Llewelyn knew he had been luckier than most men, for he'd sired eight children, buried but one-Tegwared" (Chapter 2, pg. 31.)

"It was with a sense of foreboding that Mabel de Druual watched her lady read Simon de Montfort's letter" (Chapter 4, pg. 65.)

"Eleanor had been anticipating the churching for weeks. But the ceremony was utterly overshadowed by Henry's shocking public quarrel with his sister and her husband" (Chapter 6, pg. 102.)

"Davydd prepared to do battle as his people had always done" (Chapter 11, pg. 148.)

"Henry's war was not popular with his English barons" (Chapter 14, pg. 181.)

"He landed at Portsmouth on October 9, a staggering 350,000 marks in debt, and demanded a victory procession into London. His English subjects were not amused" (Chapter 14, pg. 203.)

"And all the men turned their eyes toward France, wondering how long it...