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Lady Isabel Pole was the third child and eldest daughter of Sir Richard Pole and Lady Margaret Pole. She was born in January 5th, 1496. How does Isabel navigate court from a young age as Queen Elizabeth of York's ward? What is her relationship with the Tudor children since she grew up with them? Does Isabel have a good relationship with her family despite only seeing them when they're summoned to court? What happens when the Spanish princess arrives at England to marry Prince Arthur of wales? How does everything change for Isabel? And what does Isabel do when she catches the king's eye, her childhood friend Harry, when she's older?

The Battle of the Roses was a long and bloody one, resulting in Henry VII talking the crown of England. When Elizabeth of York recieves a letter from her uncle about her marrying the future king of England, everything goes wrong. He'll have to force her down the aisle to marry him.

After the death of his brother, King Edward IV of York, the Duke of Gloucester, Richard Plantagenet of York, locks his young nephews in the Tower of London and disinherits them from the crown. He exiles the Dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville and her daughters from the palace to another part of the Tower. During this same period, he and his wife, Anne Neville, become the new King and Queen of England. Their son, young Edward, becomes the new Prince of Wales and heir to the throne. At the beginning of his reign, the Duke of Exeter, Thomas Beaufort, arrives at the court of the new king with his wife, Margaret Beaufort, and his daughter from a previous marriage, Jessica Beaufort. And in the near future, the destinies of the new king and young Lady Jessica become intertwined in a web of court intrigue and foreign conspiracies during a turbulent time of warring roses...

Being Royal let alone been, a prince can always be quite precarious. Even more, so when you are a twin. Prince Edward, my lovingly known as Ned who is the second son of King Henry the seventh and Queen Hope of York knew his place in the world. Guided by his mothers hand he knew what he was supposed to do. Or at least that is what he was lead to believe. With the death if his mother. He is thrown into a future that he was never molded to do. Made even worse by in maternal inheritance Edward must navigate the new way of things left by in his mothers wake to secure the future of his family and his country

In 1424 history takes a dramatic left turn when Anne of Burgundy, Duchess of Bedford gives birth to a must needed heir for John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford. Book One of the House of Bedford Trilogy.