Dukeofyork Stories

Follow the childhood years of Princess Adeline of Wales as she grows up in the troubled household of the Wales' as her parents' marriage crumbles around her and her older brothers. Book One of the Princess Adeline Series.

She bends, she listens, she remembers. And the realm underestimates her at its peril. 👑🌊🧵 In a court that prizes volume over vision, Alyssa Woodville survives by being overlooked. Younger sister to a queen and shaped by a pronounced curvature of the spine, Alyssa has learned early that stillness can be a weapon. At barely one hundred and fifty centimetres and light as a winter cloak, she is dismissed as fragile, ornamental, easily managed. Yet beneath her braided dark cherry-red hair and watchful ocean-blue eyes lies a mind sharper than the blades brandished by kings and kingmakers alike. When Alyssa is married to Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, it is thought a convenient match. A quiet girl for a quiet prince. What no one anticipates is how perfectly they understand one another. Richard, underestimated for his reserve, finds in Alyssa a partner who reads the world as he does. She counts loyalties like chess pieces, listens where others boast, and sees through ambition with unnerving clarity. While Edward IV and George of Clarence dote on their little brother's wife, indulging her gentleness and shielding her from courtly cruelties, Alyssa watches. She studies power, unpicks politics, and out-thinks even the great Earl of Warwick, who mistakes her silence for insignificance. This is a story of love built not on spectacle, but on trust. Of a woman who does not seek to rule, yet changes the course of England simply by understanding it better than anyone else. In the long, blood-stained corridors of the fifteenth century, Alyssa of Gloucester becomes the soft-spoken constant that history never saw coming.

Update: Every 2 weeks Weds AEST ____________________________________ Chosen as a last resort to overcome Anne Boleyn's rise to Queen, Isabella De Angelo is tasked with seducing the King and keeping his affections until he bores of the idea of Anne becoming Queen. With the Pope favouring her, Catherine of Aragon giving her blessing and the people of England singing her praises, will Isabella achieve greatness or will the England she so desperately want to save turn for the worst?

Princess Victoria Charlotte Mary Anne Alexandra Windsor, the newly styled Duchess of Gloucester, has always lived between worlds - the glittering rituals of the British monarchy and the private storms of her own mind. With autism, schizophrenia, and the same mysterious hereditary illness that once plagued George III, she is the sister the public rarely sees... yet the one her father, King George V, trusts most with the words that hold the Empire together. At only twenty‑one, Victoria's long wavy dark cherry‑red blonde hair is almost always braided - a quiet anchor in a life that rarely feels still. Her voice, however, is steady. Clear. Unshakably sincere. And when her father's health falters, she becomes the unexpected speaker of the Crown. Her husband, Commander Edmund Bearman, twenty‑eight, disciplined, fiercely loyal, and utterly devoted to her, stands at her side as the monarchy fractures around the abdication crisis. As Edward VIII wavers and George VI struggles with his own voice, Victoria becomes the bridge between brothers, between duty and compassion, between silence and the words the world needs to hear. But the more she steps into the spotlight, the more the shadows of her mind begin to stir. And as Britain edges toward war, Victoria must decide whether her voice belongs to the Crown... or to herself. A story of love, loyalty, illness, courage - and a young woman who was never meant to speak, yet becomes the one voice the nation cannot do without. A princess born to silence. A duchess called to speak. A nation held together by her voice. 🎙️👑

(This is now an archive) For the new version of the story search: A Love in Time: The Commander and Howe The description and title are still a work in progress as is the story. Once I finish this first draft I'll revise it later in a way that will improve the overall narrative. That means the story will initially be awkward but improve over time. I'm open to constructive feedback and ideas as we progress. Leave them in the comments if you have one, I'll see if it works. Enjoy :) The characters and story picture are not mine. They are owned by Yongshi, Manjuu and Yostar.