JEAN PLAIDY

10th in the "Plantagenet" series. Richard of Bordeaux, young heir to the throne after Edward the Third, faces opposition from his ambitious uncles as well as the common people.

Marguerite, eldest daughter of the Count of Provence, had married a king of France - and now her sister Eleanor, marries Henry of England. King Henry rules a nation that still remembers his cruel and foolish father, King John. As Henry showers gifts o ...

Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire. The court at Windsor, Balmoral, Osborne or Buckingham Palace is shocked by the Prince of Wales, in pursuit ...

9th in the popular series depicting the rise and fall of Edward the Second. 15-year old Edward the Third is now King, and vows war on France, heralding the start of the Hundred Years' War.