The Royal Diaries: Eleanor Of Aquitaine

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine lives in a castle in Poitiers, France, with her father Count William of Aquitaine (son of William the Conqueror), and her twelve-year-old sister Petronilla. Their mother died several years earlier, so their grandmother and ladies-in-waiting raise the girls.

Eleanor is extremely intelligent and literate, having been carefully educated by royal tutors. Spinning bores her, as does weaving, sewing, and other housewifery skills expected of her. She would rather be a knight and ride off to war.