Still, a brother who looked with amiable contempt at John’s earlier intrigues would hardly risk regicide. The document is a forgery, and, despite his hunger for the crown, John is innocent of the charge. But now John tells him of a document implicating him in a plot to kill his brother, King Richard. As the Queen’s man, de Quincy has already encountered John’s murderous side. 41.Bowing to an urgent summons from his former lover, Justin de Quincy hastens to Paris only to find that the Lady Claudine was, in fact, acting on behalf of his nemesis Prince John. His long love affair and eventual marriage with Ellen, daughter of Simon De Montfort, provides the strong emotional interest in the book, while the political machinations of Edward against the Welsh and the Scots, together with Llewellyn's struggle to control the recalcitrant Welsh Princes provides the political and military drama.

The major figures in The Reckoning are the splendid dominant King of England, Edward I, and The Great Llewellyn II, Prince of Wales. 9780140113259 The Reckoning 41.3000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary /shop/books/fiction This book completes the splendid sequence of novels on the struggle between the independent Welsh Princes and the growing English strength which began with Here be Dragons, continued with Falls the Shadow and is now completed with The Reckoning.

This book completes the splendid sequence of novels on the struggle between the independent Welsh Princes and the growing English strength which began with Here be Dragons, continued with Falls the Shadow and is now completed with The Reckoning. His long love affair and eventual marriage with Ellen, daughter of Simon De Montfort, provides the s.

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