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Recommended writer Alison Weir brings alive the remarkable story of Katherine Swynford, a noble mistress who turned among the most important figures in the real history of Great Britain. Created in the mid-fourteenth-century, Katherine p Roët was just twelve when she married Hugh Swynford, an impoverished soldier. But her tale had certainly started 2 yrs previously, when she was appointed governess for the home of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and last daughter of King Edward III. Widowed at twenty one, Katherine turned John's mistress and subsequently, after several turns of fortune, his woman in a scandalous relationship.