With the throne empty, Philip of Poitiers, the dead king's brother, moves fast. In Lyon he locks the cardinals in until they elect a pope, then rushes to Paris to take the regency. Clémence gives birth to a boy, King John I. Mahaut sees the baby as the last obstacle between her son-in-law and the crown. When the king is presented to the barons, the child dies of poison. Except it wasn't the king: the wet nurse, Marie de Cressay, was holding her own son. Count Bouville hides the real John with her. Philip is crowned, and an assembly rules that no woman can inherit the throne of France.
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In 1972, The Royal Succession gets its own episode. In 2005 the series has five episodes and none bears this book's name: its story gets squeezed between its neighbors.
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