Amazon.com description: Product Description: Fatherless Richard de Clare, was placed at the age of eight in the care of Hubert de Burgh. There he met Hubert's daughter Meggotta, and quickly they became inseparable. But two years later Hubert fell from grace with King Henry III and was faced with the threat of death. By then aged ten, Meggotta and Richard were already deeply in love. Striving to protect them, Hubert's wife arranged their secret marriage. They dared to defy the rigid conventions of the feudal marriage market. But the union was doomed and the young lovers paid a tragic price for the defiance.