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Historical person
1400–1452
Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, was the wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and a prominent figure at the English court during Henry VI’s minority. She was convicted of treasonable necromancy in 1441, a scandal that damaged her husband’s political position.
In Philippa Gregory’s Royal Witch, her relationship with Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, raises her from attendant to duchess and places her near the centre of the Lancastrian succession. In Joanna Hickson’s The Tudor Bride, Mette, still serving as her companion, watches Humphrey of Gloucester and other magnates struggle for control of the infant king and the widowed queen’s household.
Series
The Catherine de Valois sequence follows the French princess from childhood at the unstable court of Charles VI to her marriage to Henry V and her later relationship with Owen Tudor. Both novels are narrated principally through Mette, a fictional servant and lifelong companion. The Agincourt Bride covers…
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The Plantagenet and Tudor novels form a chronological sequence of connected but independently readable stories about women near the English throne. They move from the Lancastrian court and the Wars of the Roses through the rise of the Tudors, Henry VIII’s marriages, the mid-Tudor religious crisis and the…
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