MY FAIR LADY: A Story of Eleanor of Provence, Henry III's Lost Queen (Medieval Babes: Tales of Little-Known Ladies Book 1)
- 4.2 out of 5
- 2,298 ratings
- 290 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This is a historical novel centered on royal marriage, rivalry, and power struggles in medieval Europe. Expect court intrigue, sharp tongues during arguments, and periodic references to war, imprisonment, and church politics in a Christian setting, without sample evidence for many modern content-warning themes such as racism, LGBTQ+ identity, or self-harm. Language stays largely in the mild-to-moderate range for the era, with a single stronger oath and some harsh name-calling. Violence is present in battle aftermath, personal revenge, and an especially detailed assassination scene; sexual material in the samples is limited to a brief discussion of taboo kinship in a proposed match rather than on-page intimacy.
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Crude Mild
1Aside from profane insults counted elsewhere, crude humor is minimal; one moment leaves room for a bawdy private reading of a rescue story without detailing it.
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Specific words
- suck: 1
Profanity Moderate
9Historical dialogue includes occasional mild oaths and frustrated exclamations scattered through court and family scenes, plus a few stronger moments such as a shouted compound oath and harsh insults toward women in heated outbursts. Illegitimate-birth wording appears in narration but is not always meant as swearing.
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Specific words
- damn: 4
- bitch: 2
- bastard: 1
- goddamn: 1
- hell: 1
Sex Mild
1Adults briefly debate whether a relationship would be morally taboo because of how closely the families are already tied; there is no explicit sexual activity tied to that topic in the samples.
Specific words
- incest: 1
Violence Moderate
17The story reflects medieval politics and war: street fighting, arrows, thrown objects that cut skin, stabbings, and a vividly described killing in a sacred space. Medical bloodletting and many non-violent uses of bleeding imagery also appear.
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- blood: 12
- stab: 3
- bleed: 2
About this book
Married to King Henry III at a young age, Eleanor of Provence navigates a world fraught with court intrigue and baronial wrath. A devoted mother, she defies the monks to care for her ailing son, future king Edward I. A loyal friend to family members, she incurs the jealousy of the nobles, the anger of the common folk. As Simon de Montfort's popularity rises and Henry's wanes, Eleanor must decipher friend from foe. Will her son Edward free his captive father at Evesham? Will Eleanor’s own legacy endure, or fade away like whispers in the wind? Today, Eleanor of Provence is lost to time, one of the lesser known English Queens, her gravesite obliterated, its whereabouts forgotten—one of the few English monarchs to have no known tomb. MY FAIR LADY is first person novel written from the viewpoint of Eleanor herself. A woman’s look at her own Queenship and life and loves in the 13th century, at the time of the Second Barons Revolt. Read more