This book is about the Valois children who grew up in the Loire Valley. What kind of world were they born into? What kind of parents did they have? How did they turn out as adults? Successful? Well balanced? Or not? What was childhood like if your father was the king of France? What kind of Court did your father keep? What was it like growing up? Children born to the king of France belonged to the State so had the best of everything but were they loved? Nurtured? This book, which goes a little way to answer these often imponderable questions, mentions some of the places where the children lived in the beautiful Loire Valley, the land of châteaux. Bourges, Chinon, Loches, Tours, Blois and Amboise.