![]() ![]() ![]() However this book is so much more than a love story and so much more than a piece of historical fiction as well. I am a self-confessed sucker for a love story so this book would have had to be pretty bad for me not to love it. Their well-documented romance persisted through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness and redemption. ![]() In this era of dangers and passion, John of Gaunt, the king’s son and the proudest of the Plantagenets, fought for power and fell desperately in love with the already married Katherine. It is set in the vibrant 14th century England of Chaucer when magnificent pageantry was confronted by the Black Death, when knights went to battle in expensive foreign wars while peasants struggled to survive, and when the magnificent but despotic Plantagenets – Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II – ruled over a court rotten with intrigue. This classic novel tells the most romantic love story in British history – the true tale of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of much of the British Royal family. ![]()
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