• Guinevere was wife and queen to the legendary King Arthur. Although her character has been alternately admirable or despicable in different adaptations of the story, the most common element to Guinevere's character is her adulterous affair with Arthur's greatest knight, Lancelot. This affair is almost always directly linked to the fall of Camelot.
  • Origins of the Lancelot Adultery

    Although it has since become an inseparable part of the Camelot mythos, Guinevere's adulterous relationship with Lancelot was first told in the Medieval poem, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, written by Chrétien de Troyes. This juicy addition to the story was so popular that it was incorporated into the Lancelot-Grail Cycle as well as Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.

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