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The Survival of the Princes in the Tower

Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750985283
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Survival of the Princes in the Tower written by Matthew Lewis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in British history. Traditionally considered victims of their ruthless uncle, there are other suspects too often and too easily discounted. There may be no definitive answer, but by delving into the context of their disappearance and the characters of the suspects, Matthew Lewis examines the motives and opportunities afresh, as well as asking a crucial but often overlooked question: what if there was no murder? What if Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, survived their uncle's reign and even that of their brother-in-law Henry VII? In this new and updated edition, compelling evidence is presented to suggest the Princes survived, which is considered alongside the possibility of their deaths to provide a rounded and complete assessment of the most fascinating mystery in history.

The Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series

Author : David Baldwin
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075247992X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series written by David Baldwin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes on the Tower, survive his imprisonment? In this revealing new book medieval historian David Baldwin presents an original and intriguing scenario. On 27 December 1550 an old man named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent. He had spent much of his life working as a bricklayer at St John's Abbey, Colchester, but, unusually for a bricklayer, he could read Latin. Reluctant to give any account of his background, he eventually told his employer that he was a natural son of Richard III. Yet, if this was true, why was he not publicly acknowledged by the king? Richard III made provision for his other bastards, John of Gloucester and Katherine. The fact that he was called Richard Plantagenet is also revealing. Had he simply been Richard III's bastard, he would have been styled 'of Gloucester' or given the name of his birthplace. And, most tellingly of all, where is the evidence that Prince Richard actually died? David Baldwin opens up an entirely new line of investigation and offers a startling solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in English history and a final exoneration for Richard III.

Elizabeth Woodville

Author : David Baldwin
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752468979
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Woodville written by David Baldwin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Woodville is undoubtedly a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress; as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes and a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories. She has been alternatively championed and vilified by her contemporaries and five centuries of historians, dramatists and novelists, but what was she really life? In this revealing account of Elizabeth's life David Baldwin sets out to tell the story of this complex and intriguing woman. Was she the malign influence many of her critics held her to be? Was she a sorceress who bewitched Edward IV? What was the fate of her two sons, the 'Princes in the Tower'? What did she, of all people, think had become of them, and why did Richard III mount a campaign of vilification against her? David Baldwin traces Elizabeth's career and her influence on the major events of her husband Edward IV's reign, and in doing so he brings to life the personal and domestic politics of Yorkist England and the elaborate ritual of court life.

The Killer of the Princes in the Tower

Author : M. J. Trow
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526784084
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Killer of the Princes in the Tower written by M. J. Trow and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disappearance of two boys during the summer of 1483 has never been satisfactorily explained. They were Edward, Prince of Wales, nearly thirteen at the time, and his brother, Richard of York, nearly ten. With their father, Edward IV, dying suddenly at forty, both boys had been catapulted into the spotlight of fifteenth-century politics, which was at once bloody and unpredictable. Thanks to the work of the hack ‘historians’ who wrote for Henry VII, the first Tudor, generations grew up believing that the boys were murdered and that the guilty party was their wicked uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Richard crowned himself King of England in July 1483, at which time the boys were effectively prisoners in the Tower of London. After that, there was no further sign of them. Over the past 500 years, three men in particular have been accused of the boys’ murders – Richard of Gloucester; Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond; and Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. The evidence against them would not stand up in a court of law today, but the court of history is much less demanding and most fingers remain pointed squarely at Richard of Gloucester. This book takes a different approach, the first to follow this particular line of enquiry. It is written as a police procedural, weighing up the historical evidence without being shackled to a particular ‘camp’. The supposition has always been made that the boys were murdered for political reasons. But what if that is incorrect? What if they died for other reasons entirely? What if their killer had nothing to gain politically from their deaths at all? And, even more fascinatingly, what if the princes in the Tower were not the only victims?

The Princes in the Tower

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307806847
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Princes in the Tower written by Alison Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprehensive and insightful, THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER offers a unique perspective on a profound mystery." Faye Kellerman Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill the young princes, as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as the dozens of modern accounts, Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder to arrive at a conclusion Sherlock Holmes himself could not dispute.

The Princes in the Tower

Author : Josephine Wilkinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445619849
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Princes in the Tower written by Josephine Wilkinson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Richard III Murder His Nephews, Edward V & Richard of York? Huge interest in Richard III at the moment with the discovery of his skeleton and also with his historical rehabilitation

King Richard II

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book King Richard II written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Richard III

Author : Chris Skidmore
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466844116
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Richard III written by Chris Skidmore and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England’s most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain. Richard III is one of English history’s best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked murderer, the discovery in 2012 of his skeleton in a Leicester parking lot re-ignited debate over the true character of England’s most controversial king. Richard was born into an age of brutality, when civil war gripped the land and the Yorkist dynasty clung to the crown with their fingertips. Was he really a power-crazed monster who killed his nephews, or the victim of the first political smear campaign conducted by the Tudors? In the first full biography of Richard III for fifty years, Chris Skidmore draws on new manuscript evidence to reassess Richard’s life and times. Richard III examines in intense detail Richard’s inner nature and his complex relations with those around him to unravel the mystery of the last English monarch to die on the battlefield.

The Mythology of the 'Princes in the Tower'

Author : John Ashdown-Hill
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445679426
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Mythology of the 'Princes in the Tower' written by John Ashdown-Hill and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the story of the murder of the ‘princes in the Tower’ put out? What bones were found at the Tower of London, and when? Can DNA now reveal the truth?

Richard III

Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445671557
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Richard III written by Matthew Lewis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive new biography of one of British history's most controversial figures, that seeks to bring peace to Richard III's reputation.

The Daughter of Time

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Daughter of Time written by Josephine Tey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector is feeling bored while confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Marta Hallard, an actress friend of his, suggests that he should amuse himself by researching a historical mystery. She brings him some pictures of historical characters, aware of Grant's interest in human faces. He becomes intrigued by a portrait of King Richard III. He prides himself on being able to read a person's character from his appearance, and King Richard seems to him a gentle, kind and wise man. Why is everyone so sure that he was a cruel murderer? With the help of other friends and acquaintances, Grant investigates Richard's life and the case of the Princes in the Tower, testing out his theories on the doctors and nurses who attend to him. Grant spends weeks pondering historical information and documents with the help of Brent Carradine, a likable young American researcher working in the British Museum. Using his detective's logic, he tries to come to the conclusion whether the claim of Richard being a murderer is a fabrication of Tudor propaganda, or was he really a monstrous hunchback. The Daughter of Time was voted greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990.

Matilda

Author : Catherine Hanley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300227256
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Matilda written by Catherine Hanley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life of Matilda--empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown--the first woman ever to hold the position--and an able military general. This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and political leader, and sets her life and career in full context. Catherine Hanley provides fresh insight into Matilda's campaign to claim the title of queen, her approach to allied kingdoms and rival rulers, and her role in the succession crisis. Hanley highlights how Matilda fought for the throne, and argues that although she never sat on it herself her reward was to see her son become king. Extraordinarily, her line has continued through every single monarch of England or Britain from that time to the present day.

The Secret Queen

Author : John Ashdown-Hill
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752468952
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Queen written by John Ashdown-Hill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. From the day when Edward IV married Eleanor, or pretended to do so, or allowed it to be whispered that he might have done so, the House of York, previously so secure in its bloodline, confronted a contentious and uncertain future. John Ashdown-Hill 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. He thereby offers a solution to one of history's great mysteries.

The Tudors

Author : Timothy Venning
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783462728
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Tudors written by Timothy Venning and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the Tudor period, though he also strays over into the early Stuart period. As always, he discusses the crucial junctions at which History could easily have taken a different turn and analyses the possible and likely results. While necessarily speculative to a degree, the scenarios are all highly plausible and rooted in a firm understanding of actually events and their context. In so doing, Timothy Venning gives the reader a clearer understanding of the factors at play and why things happened the way they did, as well as a tantalizing view of what might so easily have been different. ??Key scenarios discussed in this volume include: ??´ Did the pretenders Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck ever have a realistic chance of a successful invsasion/coup???´ If Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII's illegitimate son, had not died young, might he have been a suitable King or at least Regent on the King's death? ??´ What if Edward VI had not died at 15 but reigned into the 1560s and 70s???´ How might the Spanish Armada have succeeded in landing an army in England, and with what likely outcome?

The Constant Princess

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743272498
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Constant Princess written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional portrait of Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine of Aragon, follows her through her youthful marriage to Henry's older brother, Arthur, her widowhood, her marriage to Henry, and the divorce that led to Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn.

Richard III

Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526727986
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Richard III written by Matthew Lewis and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bust[s] some commonly held myths that have built up about Richard III over the centuries, most coming from Shakespeare’s famous play . . . eye-opening.” —Sarah Bryson, author of La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, a Life in Letters King Richard III remains one of the most infamous and recognizable monarchs in English or British history, despite only sitting on the throne for two years and fifty-eight days. His hold on the popular imagination is largely due to the fictional portrayal of him by William Shakespeare which, combined with the workings of five centuries of rumor and gossip, has created two opposing versions of Richard. In fiction he is the evil, scheming murderer who revels in his plots, but many of the facts point towards a very different man. Dissecting a real Richard III from the fictional versions that have taken hold is made difficult by the inability to discern motives in many instances, leaving a wide gap for interpretation that can be favorable or damning in varying degrees. It is the facts that will act as the scalpel to begin the operation of finding a truth obscured by fiction. Richard III may have been a monster, a saint, or just a man trying to survive, but any view of him should be based in the realities of his life, not the myths built on rumor and theater. How much of what we think we know about England’s most controversial monarch will remain when the facts are sifted from the fictions? “He’s been portrayed as one of history’s biggest baddies—and Shakespeare shares the blame for that.But now historian and author Matt Lewis is out to right the wrong done to Richard III.” —Shropshire Star

The Queen’s Rival

Author : Anne O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008225516
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Queen’s Rival written by Anne O'Brien and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten story of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. A strong woman who claimed the throne for her family in a time of war... ‘A compelling story of divided loyalties and family betrayals. Dramatic and highly evocative’ Woman & Home