Done for the State
John Guy: The House of York, 2 April 2020
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
by Thomas Penn.
Penguin, 688 pp., £12.99, April,978 0 7181 9728 5 Show More
by Thomas Penn.
Penguin, 688 pp., £12.99, April,
Richard III: The Self-Made King
by Michael Hicks.
Yale, 388 pp., £25, October 2019,978 0 300 21429 1 Show More
by Michael Hicks.
Yale, 388 pp., £25, October 2019,
“... on Palm Sunday, he took the throne from the weak, ineffectual Henry VI and was crowned King Edward IV.Usurpers were plentiful in the 15th century. Edward’s claim was by lineal descent from Edward III, and was a strong one if you ignored the deposition of Richard II in 1399. In the ... ”