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    Category: The Forbidden Queen

    The Love Affair That Never Was

    Posted on 21st February 2013

    Henry V and Katherine de Valois. A fairy tale marriage? Where is the evidence? The Love Affair That Never Was. William Shakespeare has a lot to answer for.  Did he…

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    My Thoughts on Writing about Katherine de Valois

    Posted on 13th January 2013

    My Thoughts on Writing about Katherine de Valois, and how my novel developed to beome a novel of love and loss, fulfilment and tragedy. My Thoughts on Writing about Katherine…

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    Myth, Legend, Tradition, Propaganda…

    Posted on 8th December 2012

    Myth, legend, tradition and historical propaganda:  just how did Katherine de Valois and Owen Tudor fall in love? My question is, how justified in a writer of historical novels in using…

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