In her final hours, an ancient lady unravels the story of her long journey; her loving father dead, the six year old and her sisters are left in the care of their fragile, embittered mother, scattered by the cold wind through the Tudor world of faithless husbands and country squires to the height of the treacherous Star Chamber, leaving the beloved family home and fortune to Henry VIII, and their good name and blood to a five year old boy. Based on the true adventures of one of the founding mothers of our modern world.