The Forbidden Queen

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All my thanks to my agent, Jane Judd, whose support for me

and the courageous women of the Middle Ages continues

to be invaluable.

To Jenny Hutton and all the staff at MIRA, without whose

guidance and commitment the real Katherine de Valois

would never have emerged from the mists of the past.

To Helen Bowden and all at Orphans Press without whom

my website would not exist, and who come to my rescue to

create professional masterpieces out of my genealogy

and maps.