Joanna, Princess of Wales

Joanna is born to a disgraced noblewoman and spends the first five years of her life living hidden away in a small, two room hovel. Joanna's mother yearns to return to her father's house, anxious to return to the life she knew before she became pregnant with her illegitimate daughter. However, when her father dies, this woman knows she will never return to the luxury of her childhood. Falling into a dark depression, Joanna's mother drinks herself to death. The mother's family is contacted, but when they learn of the death of their sister, they want nothing to do with the child that led to her downfall. Instead, the brother tells who the father was and suggests they place Joanna with a family who needs a girl to work for them. Instead, the noblewoman who has taken Joanna in has decided to send Joanna to...