The Forgotten Princess is a Wattpad novel by Stephanie Winter.
Set in15th Century England, the book tells a fictionalized account of the life of Anne de Mortimer and her relationship with Richard of Conisburgh.
This series provides examples of:
- Badass Bookworm: Anne is repeatedly referred to as having a love for reading and for playing chess, as well as excelling in archery. Though she is unable to participate in hunting or combat because she is a woman, she repeatedly expresses desire to.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Anne and Richard, in the first chapter, when Anne assumes Richard was involved with the plot to betray her family and thinks his friendliness towards her is just a game.
- Chess Motifs: Heavy use of these throughout the book, and Anne repeatedly complains about her family being used as pawns.
- Death by Childbirth: Happens to Anne off-page between the last chapter and the epilogue.
- Faux Affably Evil: Both King Henry and Prince Hal behave this way. Prince Hal especially always hides his manipulations under a guise of friendliness, that Anne doesn't trust one bit.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Anne at first laments that she has no "Lancelot" to fight for her, but then begins to see Richard as this.
- The Late Middle Ages: It is a fictionalized account of real historical figures' lives.
