Covering the period 1485 – 1527 this is the fascinating
story of a Princess who experienced abandonment, poverty, restoration, love,
loss and sacrifice amidst the turmoil of the establishment of the Tudor
dynasty. During her life four Kings ruled in England, two claimants to the
throne invaded (one successfully); ordinary people revolted and marched on
London, plague and disease stalked the land and anyone who might be a threat to
the Tudors was imprisoned or executed.
This is the story of Katherine of York, Princess of England:
the daughter, sister and aunt of Kings. Daughter
of Edward IV, sister of the missing Edward V, sister-in-law of Henry VII and
aunt of Henry VIII. It is also the story of her friends, John Kayleway the
sworn protector of the Lancastrian William Courtenay, son of the Earl of Devon
and Joan Tregarthin, a distant relation and Cornish heiress.
Katherine is amongst the last of the Yorkist royal bloodline.
She grows up at Court: an inconvenient relative of the Crown. We follow the
four friends as their life stories unfold from Bosworth Field to the reign of
Henry VIII.
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