Perhaps it was the RSC's performances of Shakepeare's History Cycle, from Richard the Second to Richard the Third in Michael Boyd's exhilarating productions of a decade ago. (The only historical fiction I read before adulthood was the Regency romances of Georgette Heyer). It was published in 1954 and has remained popular ever since but somehow passed me by. Unlike many History Girls, I never read the novel "Katherine" by Anya Seton.
I can't remember when I first became interested in the Beauforts, the children conceived by Katherine Swynford by her lover, John of Gaunt, and later legitimised by their marriage.
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