"Pig-boy" Tad advances in position and encounters personal and momentous experiences as he enters manhood and during journeys with Jadwiga through the Commonwealth of Poland with Lithuania. Crowned King, not Queen, in 1384 at 11 years of age, Jadwiga's reign is marked with events which have endear her to the public for centuries. Recognition of her as a saint came in 1997 when supported by, once bishop of Krakow, Poland, Pope John Paul II.