lochiels: ✧ All the years of her life, and they were fifty-six, she had worked faithfully and untiri
lochiels: ✧ All the years of her life, and they were fifty-six, she had worked faithfully and untiringly for those dear to her, nor did her labours cease when failing health, sorrow, bereavement and disillusion darkened her path. The England of the fourteenth century was unsettled and excited, naturally perhaps, with such constant mighty victories and violent issues hanging ever in the balance; but through it all Philippa walked with clear head and steady feet. – Blanche Christabel Hardy, Philippa of Hainault and Her Times -- source link
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