Could I possibly find my parentage somewhere in this document?Does my name truly belong on this parchment? Am I a descendant of Gaunt from one of his three mistresses?She rolled the parchment back up, repeating the names of long-dead noblemen: “Beaufort, Beauchamp, Neville, Stafford.” She knew these names since childhood.
Combing through her diary, she pondered every mention of a visitor or lad being knighted. She re-read her entries about feeble-minded King Henry VI, of his ill-fated battles, his triumphs and failures, and his controlling wife, Marguerite of Anjou.
If she was in King Henry"s charge as an infant, his living relatives might remember her.
Mayhap King Henry sired her himself and, slipping in and out of mental incontinence, failed to recognize her! She could be a princess i
