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Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
With a new royal baby, we witness fundamental changes in the succession laws, but then rules governing the royal weddings and the succession to the throne have always been shifting. So what is MARRIAGE, and who, decides? What special rules govern ROYAL MARRIAGE, and when did they, come into force? How have royal marriages affected history? Were the 'Princes in the Tower' illegitimate? Did Henry VIII really have six wives? Was Queen Victoria 'Mrs....
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The secret history of Eleanor Talbot, the woman at the heart of the controversy surrounding Richard III Offering a solution to one of England's great mysteries, this book argues that Eleanor Talbot was married to Edward IV, and that therefore Edward's subsequent marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was bigamous, making her children illegitimate. When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy...
3) Dublin King: The True Story of Edward Earl of Warwick, Lambert Simnel and the 'Princes in the Tower'
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Was Lambert Simnel an impostor or a Yorkist prince? And can DNA evidence offer a clue to his legitimacy and finally solve this 500-year-old mystery? A year after Richard III's death, a boy claiming to be a Yorkist prince appeared as if from nowhere. He said he was Richard III's heir and the rightful King of England. In 1487, in a unique ceremony, this boy was crowned in Dublin Cathedral, despite the Tudor government insisting that his real name was...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Wife to Edward IV and mother to the Princes in the Tower and later Queen Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Widville was a central figure during the War of the Roses. Much of her life is shrouded in speculation and myth - even her name, commonly spelled as 'Woodville', is a hotly contested issue. Born in the turbulent fifteenth century, she was famed for her beauty and controversial second marriage to Edward IV, who she married just three years after he...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his son, Edward (one of the 'Princes in the Tower'). The crown therefore passed to Edward's undoubtedly legitimate younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. But, Richard, too, found himself entangled in the web of uncertainly, since those, who believed in the legitimacy of Edward IV's children viewed Richard III's own accession as a usurpation....
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An important contribution to Ricardian scholarship offering revelations about John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and why he became Richard III's key supporterIn 1455, John Howard was an untitled and relatively obscure Suffolk gentleman. At the time of his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 he was Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk, Lord Admiral and a very rich man (and the current Duke of Norfolk is his direct descendant). How had he attained these...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
What Richard III did in his last five months, what happened to his body, and how his DNA was found in Canada A new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days explores these events from the standpoint of Richard himself and his contemporaries. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, this book presents a new Richard, no passive victim, awaiting defeat and death, but a king actively...
Author
Language
English
Description
Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous Kingmaker, Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England.
Mythologically rumored to have been known as the Rose of Raby because of her beauty and her birth at Raby Castle, and as Proud Cis because of her vanity and fiery temper, Cecilys personality and temperament have actually been highly...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A fully revised and expanded edition includes the discoveries of the Leicester dig, Richard III's burial location, and the DNA results of the skeleton found A uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days details these events from the standpoint of Richard himself and his contemporaries. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, this book presents a new Richard-no passive victim, awaiting...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
George, Duke of Clarence has had so little written about him, that historians face many questions: Where was he born? What was he like? What set him against his brother Edward IV? He played a central role in the Wars of the Roses-but was he for York or Lancaster? Is the story of his drowning in a barrel of wine-as in Richard III-true? And was "false, fleeting, perjur'd Clarence" in some ways the role model behind the 16th-century defamation of Richard...