So, these are actual historical letters pulled from my reference materials. Just for fun, I've. pulled them for you to read. They are interesting because you get the actual person's voice in the letter, Henry V's are quite fun he's so eloquent. The letter they quote in the novels is in full here, with the greatest sentence in the world underlined.
So this is Henry IV to future Henry V who is prince of Wales here. We have no date on this but it's in regards to Henry V asking for some money to fund his siege going on in Wales, and Henry IV is just so epically bitchy, to, given the letter, his actual 16-18 year old child, it's terrible.
Here's one of Henry V's letters, early on like he's 16 here it's marvelous he's so exact and to the point. This is instructions for a clerk.
This is the Archbishop of Dublin telling Henry IV 'come get your child' because 13 year old Thomas is in Ireland starving, unable to cope. No reply. Then the next one is Thomas saying the same thing, that letter is ripped no reply. Yeah Henry IV is up for parenting awards here (not).
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Hand in Violent Hand
Narrativa StoricaFULL Violent Delights/Hand in Hand novels, in chronological order. Do you want to laugh? Cry? Learn an absurd amount about Middle Ages history? Look no further. It's epic. It's gay. It's feminist. It's darkly funny, with periodic full historical...