A review by khoerner7
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess by Alison Weir

2.0

This started out as a very readable historical work on an interesting woman. Katherine Swynford was the widow of a British knight in the 1300s. She is most known for being a long time mistress of John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III and uncle to Richard II. She had four children with John of Gaunt. After his second wife died, he scandalously married his mistress though she was of low birth. Katherine was the great great grandmother of both Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. While the story was interesting, all the details got to be too much and I skimmed a lot.