The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess
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A full length biography of the extraordinary love affair between John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford. Katherine was renowned for her beauty and regarded as enigmatic, intriguing and even dangerous by some of her contemporaries. Weir has rescued Katherine from the footnotes of history, highlighting her key dynastic position within the English monarchy. Weir's last non-fiction book }Isabella: She-Wolf Of England, Queen Of France{, sold 41,000 copies, and her first novel, }Innocent Traitor{, sold over 33,600 copies Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. This book rescues Katherine from the footnotes of history, highlighting her key dynastic position within the English monarchy.
