Actress Christina Ricci has always been a bit obsessed with historys Eleanor of Aquitaine. Rumor has it that the 12th Century Queen ran a cult of courtly love in France that practiced the radical ideology that a marriage without love was no marriage at all. Eleanor, naturally, was charged with heresy by the Catholic Church and spent 15 years wasting away in a prison cell.
It's no secret that Ricci likes complex characters; there is something awfully romantic about their intricacies. From...
erin_broadley
Los Angeles, CA
October 2006
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