Dear Mr. Cornwell,
firstly I’m sorry for my mistakes in this message. I’ll try to reduce them, but I’m afraid my knowledge of your language won’t be enough to do so. Pardon.
But now to your “paper children”… and my question:) I’ve read one of your books (Harlequin, to be specific) and I was completely dazzeled by almost every word there! I admire you for writing such a good story, which is also based on the real facts – I’ve never believed it’s possible to connect those two things together. I’ll definitely continue in reading of your books – all blessed my holidays and the free time they bring to me! :)
But there was one thing which… let’s say suprised me in Harlequin. I’m from the Czech Republic, so I know some things about king John of Luxembourg. But none of them contain the truth about his emblem, which you are writing about. As the king of Czech kingdom he had a shield with two white lions at a red background with two other red lions with striped blue and white background in the same place. I’ve never heard about the emblem you’re writing about (I mean three white feathers of ostrich).
I’ve tried to find more infos about feathers, but the only one, which came to my sight was from Froissart’s Chronicles. However in Czech translation there was a note, that mention about feathers is not based on known facts.
I’d like to know, where did you find this info and ask you for some more words about this problem.
Thank you very much. Hope to see you some day in my country!
Best regards,
Anet