Mette was just fourteen when she lost her first child. Her loss left her bereft beyond measure but her mother was able to secure her a position as wet nurse for the King's newborn daughter. At first, Mette feels no connection with the child. Instead, she continues to mourn the loss of her own son...
The Agincourt bride is Catherine de Valois, daughter of Charles VI, the mad king of France. Her mother, Isabeau of Baveria, doesn’t care about her children and neglects them until she needs them for her plotting. So when Catherine is born, a wet nurse is needed immediately. Teen aged Guillaumette...
‘Welcome to my manor,’ he said. We were on Cuddy’s land: the manor Richard had bought from Hal to grant to Cuthbert and Hilda, as I had requested. From Middleham Castle we had ridden in driving rain through a maze of treeless, stone-walled sheep pastures and forded the Cover Beck with the water u...
Standing silent among them, I felt my stomach clench; for the first time since his mailed fist had scarred my face fifteen years before, there before me stood the devil duke. He was garbed all in black as I remembered him but, instead of armour, he wore a magnificent flowing houppelande gown edge...
By contrast, her wedding to Owen Tudor took place among a small group gathered at the studded oak door of St Andrew’s church in Hadham. There were the bride and groom, a group of loyal friends and the grey-bearded village priest. Instead of liveried royal guards holding back a mob of excited citi...