This, from a film buff friend of mine....
Les (London)
Nicole Kidman to play English and French Queen
Nicole Kidman looks set to play Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in a new film.
Court And Spark will be about Eleanor, who in the 12th century became queen
of both France and England.
She became Queen of France through a marriage to King Louis VII.
She then had an affair with Henry Plantagenet, the Duke of Normandy, who
would become king of England.
Eleanor got the Pope to annul her marriage, and she soon became Queen of
England.
The film's scriptwriter, Alan Howard, told www.variety.com: "Eleanor had the
civilising influence of Jacqueline Kennedy and the political skills of
Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Thatcher.
"The movie will use this passionate and explosive love story of Eleanor and
Henry to focus on her extraordinary life," he said.
Story filed: 10:57 Thursday 10th January 2002
