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Henry of Guildford: The Boy Heir and His Grandmother
The little boy at Guildford had a nurse, a toy cart and a claim to England's throne. His grandmother could provide for almost everything except the years he needed to reach it.
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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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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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Gwenllian of Wales: The Last Prince's Daughter, Shut Away at Sempringham
Caernarfon Castle was not built to be beautiful. Edward I of England began it in 1283 as a statement pressed in limestone against the throat of a conquered nation, its banded stonework and eagle towers rising from Welsh earth to say, in the language of stone that kings have always preferred, that Wales was finished. The castle was the full stop at the end of a sentence Wales had not agreed to speak.