Best soup went to King Phillip Restaurant (Phillipston), with a landslide win for its seafood chowder.

King Phillip was the man who eventually married the English Tudor Queen Mary usually referred to as 'Bloody Mary' because she tried to re-establish the Catholic Church in England and executed many of the Protestant religious leaders.

As the English King John must contend with the French King Phillip, A King In Spite Of Himself carries its readers through the relentless pursuits of Marshal and his aide Roger de Clare as their story involves them in a plot that could end in civil war, the captivity of Arthur, the nephew of John, and a quagmire of courtly intrigue with its lethal twists and turns.