Jean Plaidy — Passage To Pontefract

Hale 1981 Hardback, 366pp. The Black Prince, hero of England, had died before his father Edward the Third, who had become a senile old man dependent on his rapacious mistress Alice Perrers; the heir to the throne was a young boy, Richard of Bordeaux, surrounded by ambitious uncles who believed it would be better for the country if they could take the crown. The eldest of the uncles was John of Gaunt, who when he married Blanche of Lancaster became the Duke of Lancaster and next to the King the richest and most powerful man in the country. Lancaster became deeply enamored of his children\'s governess, Catherine Swynford, but even this emotion could not stop his craving for the crown. DJ. (ISBN: 9780709177647). Good.