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Guinevere

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Arthur’s queen, the most beautiful woman in Britain, and one half of the love that breaks the Round Table. Her long affair with Lancelot, the king’s greatest knight, is the crack through which the whole golden order finally drains — not villainy but love in the wrong place, which the legend treats as the more tragic for being neither’s fault and both’s ruin.

Light84
Wisdom79
Grace74
Influence74
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The mythic order Guinevere belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.

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Illustrated storyThe Matter of BritainA boy pulls a sword from a stone and becomes the king who builds, for one shining generation, an order of justice out of an age of blood. But the flaw is set at the beginning — a son begotten in ignorance, a love that lands in the wrong heart — and the Round Table that quests for the Grail is undone by the very virtues that raised it. The rise and fall of Camelot, and the king who is not dead but waiting.Begin reading →