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Joan, Daughter of Edward II: Married at Seven to Robert the Bruce's Son
She was born in the Tower of London. Six years later her mother had her father murdered. A year after that, she was given away. She was seven years old.
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Eleanor de Clare: Constable and Prisoner of the Tower of London
Eleanor de Clare held the Tower of London for a month. Then they locked her inside it.
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Cecily Neville: The Mother Who Outlived Her Sons and Their Dynasty
Cecily was the youngest of her father's twenty-two children and would give birth to twelve of her own. Thirty-three years after giving birth to her youngest son, she had outlived her husband, all her sons, and the dynasty they had built.
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Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince: The Funeral He Planned for Canterbury
He was born heir to the throne and died at forty-five, still waiting. The day before, he planned his own funeral. A nine-year-old boy took his place.
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Mary of Woodstock: Edward I's Daughter, the Nun with Dice, Wine and Twenty-Four Horses
At six years old, Longshanks' daughter was given to God. She kept dice, wine, and a stable of twenty-four horses instead.
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Mary de Bohun: Rescued from a Convent, Married at Eleven, Mother of Henry V
She was ten years old when her brother-in-law tried to put her in a convent. He did not do it out of piety. He did it because if she took holy vows her inheritance would pass to him.
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Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan: She Crowned Robert the Bruce in 1306, and Edward I Built Her a Cage
Her brother would not go so she made a choice. What Edward I of England built in response is the measure of what it cost.
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Margaret of Norway: The Queen of Scotland Who Never Saw It
She was seven years old when she died. She had been Queen of Scotland for four of those years. She never saw it once.