Edward III, His Queen & His Mistress
Gone Medieval
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Is There a Queen in the Story?
Philippa is helped by how completely contrasting she is to her mother-in-law. Isabella's rebellion had been really successful but Philippa finds herself right at the heart of it. The mistress is a lady called Alice Perez and she, by contrast, is quite an enigma. She seems to have purposefully downplayed her origins because she's of a much lower class than everybody else at court. But what it seems to be is that she came from a family of goldsmiths in London.
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