pickA low-ish Pick, because it took me nearly a month to read, a sign that I wasn‘t very engaged with it. The parts that worked best for me were the bits I could relate to existing knowledge, namely the Simon de Montfort bits. That said, this is still a solid read, and I like Goldstone as a writer a lot.
I love British history and this book did not disappoint.
pickMeet Marguerite, Eleanor, Beatrice, and Sanchia: daughters of the Count of Provence, each sister lovelier and more fetching than the last. They rise from sequestered nobility to become lovely, fetching queens in France, England, Germany, and Sicily. Pageantry and poetry, chivalry and churlishness, courting and crusading... the regal sisters ascend in a time and place that celebrates masculinity more than fetchability.
"Thus it comes that I, who was most rich and most noble in this world, and exalted above all others by my treasure, my arms, and my alliances, cannot now force grim death or my illness to a truce, were it even for an hour. What then are all these worth?" -Louis IX 1244
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Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe | 
