Queen-Gold

By: Philippa Wiat

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Synopsis: This is a story of palaces and princes, lovers and loyalty, charm and enchantment ...A fairy-tale? Hardly. For it is also a story of turmoil and tragedy, conspiracy and cruelty; of a prince who was both a romantic and a realist. The victim of a disenchanted childhood, his loyalties torn apart by warring parents, his father brutally murdered, his unscrupulous mother and her tyrannical lover conspiring to rule in his name, the fifteen-year-old prince acceded to the English throne as Edward III. Could so young a monarch, albeit a Plantagenet, break free of his bonds and set his crown to rights? A few months later, in defiance of convention, he married the beautiful princess who had captivated his heart. This is the story of Edward and Philippa; of a youthful and -- in the context of the fourteenth century - unusual marriage. This is the first of a trilogy about Edward III.