In Fiction
Novels featuring Berengaria include:
- The Passionate Brood by Margaret Campbell Barnes
- The Heart Of The Lion by Jean Plaidy
- Queen Without a Country by Rachel Bard
- My Lord Brother the Lionheart by Molly Costain Haycraft
- Shield of Three Lions and Banners of Gold, by Pamela Kaufman
- The Lute Player by Norah Lofts
- Standard of Honor by Jack Whyte
- Wyrd by Sue Gough
- The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
- Winning His Spurs by G. A. Henty
- Valentina by Fern Michaels
- The Queen's Witch by Cecelia Holland
- Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman
- Locksley by Nicholas Chase
The 1935 film The Crusades, starring Loretta Young and Henry Wilcoxon, tells a fictionalized story of Richard and Berengaria's marriage. The 1960s British television series Richard the Lionheart prominently features their marriage. Both versions were highly romanticised and are not reliable sources of information about the queen.
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