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Fatherless Richard de Clare, was placed at the age of eight in the care of Hubert de Burgh. There he met Hubert's daughter Meggotta, and quickly they became inseparable. But two years later Hubert fell from grace with King Henry III and was faced with the threat of death. By then aged ten, Meggotta and Richard were already deeply in love. Striving to protect them, Hubert's wife arranged their secret marriage. They dared to defy the rigid conventions of the feudal marriage market. But the union was doomed and the young lovers paid a tragic price for the defiance.
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Originally published in 1979, this is the last novel Edith Pargeter wrote under her own name. Set in England in the 13th century, among the nobles and aristocrats surrounding King Henry III, it tells the true story of the secret marriage of the Earl of Kent¹s ten-year-old daughter, and the tragic consequences that follow in its wake.
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³A must for connoisseurs of historical fiction.² -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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- PublisherMagna Large Print Books
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0750507136
- ISBN 13 9780750507134
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages520
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