So says John of Gaunt in the midst of a three-day bedroom bender with his newly widowed lover Katherine Swynford, as imagined by author Anya Seton in her 1954 historical novel Katherine.

Historian Alison Weir's extraordinary tale of an exceptional woman. Katherine Swynford was first the mistress and later the wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster ...

When John of Gaunt – Duke of Lancaster ... most hated man in England – married "his unspeakable concubine", Katherine Swynford, in 1396, the position she vacated was never filled.

5/5 John and Katherine finally marry and their Beaufort children are legitimised.