Several book-review episodes are grouped around castles, Edward I, and the Ring of Stone around Wales. The companion titles range from Norman earls and medieval castles to Edward I's rule in Wales. Plantagenet Princes comes first because the family story explains the Anglo-French political world behind later English royal policy. The book also covers Henry III, John, and Richard the Lionheart, placing the castle story within a much larger dynastic history. This opening gives viewers of the Welsh castle series the political background for the military and territorial story.
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Plantagenet Princes and the Ring of Stone
The review places Plantagenet Princes alongside books on castles and Edward I as background for the Ring of Stone long-patrol series.