Author: Loxton, Alice

European history

Published on 13 November 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Macmillan) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 352 pages
242 x 163 x 35 | 558g

An extraordinary journey that uncovers historical secrets about England’s forgotten Queen. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller Eighteen.

I loved this beautiful, elegiac, honest and compelling book – a modern-day pilgrimage walking in the footsteps of one of the great forgotten queens’ Kate Mosse, bestselling author of The Map of BonesJoyous. The perfect walk through history Sir Tony Robinson, actor, author of The House of Wolf and presenter of Time TeamIn 1290, England mourned the death of a queen, Eleanor of Castile, beloved wife of King Edward I. Her body was carried on a 200-mile journey from Lincoln to London, a solemn procession that would become immortalized in stone. To mark the places where her cortege rested