![]() Campion promulgates a theory about what that secret is – and it is devastating, indeed. ![]() Unfortunately, Alice learns that the Perrers family is the keeper of a most deadly secret that ties them inextricably to Queen Isabella, mother of Edward III. She adores him and the life she builds with him. Thankfully for Alice, Janyn is sweet, wise and loving. ![]() Was Perrers the beautiful, manipulative widow of a merchant who raised herself above her class, or was she a sympathetic, complex woman caught in the class, political, social and economic turmoil of her times?įourteen-year-old Alice is married off by her father to a wealthy merchant, Janyn Perrers. Campion is the foremost scholar on the subject of Alice Perrers, who is primarily – and notoriously – known as the young mistress of an aging King Edward III. ![]()
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