Using TRichEdit at runtime without defining a parent

I need to use a TRichEdit at runtime to perform the rtf to text conversion as discussed here. I succeded in doing this but I had to set a dummy form as parent if not I cannot populate the TRichedit.Lines. (Error: parent is missing). I paste my funciton below, can anyone suggest a way to avoid to define a parent? Can you also comment on this and tell me if you find a more performant idea?

Note: I need a string, not TStrings as output, this is why it has been designed like this.

function RtfToText(const RTF: string;ReplaceLineFeedWithSpace: Boolean): string;
var
  RTFConverter: TRichEdit;
  MyStringStream: TStringStream;
  i: integer;
  CustomLineFeed: string;

begin
  if ReplaceLineFeedWithSpace then
    CustomLineFeed := ' '
    else
    CustomLineFeed := #13;
  try
    RTFConverter := TRichEdit.Create(nil);
    try
      MyStringStream := TStringStream.Create(RTF);
      RTFConverter.parent := Form4; // this is the part I don't like
      RTFConverter.Lines.LoadFromStream(MyStringStream);
      RTFConverter.PlainText := True;
      for i := 0 to RTFConverter.Lines.Count - 1 do
      begin
        if i < RTFConverter.Lines.Count - 1 then
          Result := Result + RTFConverter.Lines[i] + CustomLineFeed
          else
          Result := Result + RTFConverter.Lines[i];
      end;
    finally
      MyStringStream.Free;
    end;
  finally
    RTFConverter.Free;
  end;

end;

UPDATE: After the answer I updated the function and write it here for reference:

function RtfToText(const RTF: string;ReplaceLineFeedWithSpace: Boolean): string;
var
  RTFConverter: TRichEdit;
  MyStringStream: TStringStream;
begin
  RTFConverter := TRichEdit.CreateParented(HWND_MESSAGE);
  try
    MyStringStream := TStringStream.Create(RTF);
    try
      RTFConverter.Lines.LoadFromStream(MyStringStream);
      RTFConverter.PlainText := True;
      RTFConverter.Lines.StrictDelimiter := True;
      if ReplaceLineFeedWithSpace then
        RTFConverter.Lines.Delimiter := ' '
        else
        RTFConverter.Lines.Delimiter := #13;
      Result := RTFConverter.Lines.DelimitedText;
    finally
      MyStringStream.Free;
    end;
  finally
    RTFConverter.Free;
  end;
end;