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“john ashdown hill”

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  • The Last Days of Richard III

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    What Richard III did in his last five months, what happened to his body, and how his DNA was found in CanadaA 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 ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth Widville, Lady Grey

    Edward IV's Chief Mistress and the 'Pink Queen'

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    The author of The Mythology of the "Princes in the Tower" separates fact from fiction in this biography of an influential former queen of England.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 ... Read more

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  • The Dublin King

    The True Story of Edward Earl of Warwick, Lambert Simnel and the 'Princes in the Tower'

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    **A year after Richard III's death, a boy claiming to be a Yorkist prince appeared as if from nowhere, claiming to be 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 Lambert Simnel and that he was a mere pretender to the throne.Now, in The Dublin King, ... Read more

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  • The Secret Queen

    Eleanor Talbot, The Woman who put Richard III on the Throne

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his sons (the 'Princes in the Tower'). The crown therefore passed to Edward IV'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 ... Read more

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  • The Last Days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA

    The Book that Inspired the Dig

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, we discover a new Richard: no passive victim, awaiting defeat and death, but a king actively pursuing his own agenda.It also re-examines the aftermath of Bosworth: the treatment of Richard's body; ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Royal Marriage Secrets

    Consorts and Concubines, Bigamists and Bastards

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cecily Neville

    Mother of Richard III

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    An intriguing new biography of the fifteenth-century Duchess of York and mother to two kings of England.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 England.She is rumored to have been known as the Rose of Raby because of her beauty and her ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Third Plantagenet

    George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    Less well-known than his brothers, Edward IV and Richard III, little has been written about George, Duke of Clarence, leaving us with a series of unanswered questions: What was he really like? What set him and his brother Edward IV against one another? And who was really responsible for his death? George played a central role in the 'Wars of the Roses', played out by his family. But was George for ... Read more

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  • Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn'

    John Howard and the House of York

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    In 1455 John Howard was an untitled and relatively obscure Suffolk gentleman. Thirty years later, at the time of his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, he was Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk, Lord Admiral and a very rich man (and his direct descendant is Duke of Norfolk today). How had Howard attained these elevations? Through his service to the House of York, and in particular to King Richard ... Read more

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  • The Mythology of Richard III

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    Richard III. The name will conjure an image for any reader: Shakespeare’s hunchback tyrant who killed his own nephews or a long-denigrated, misunderstood king. This one man’s character and actions have divided historians and the controversy has always kept interest in Richard alive. However, curiosity surrounding his life and death has reached unprecedented heights in the aftermath of the ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • The Wars of the Roses

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    The Wars of the Roses call to mind bloody battles, treachery and deceit, and a cast of characters known to us through fact and fiction: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard III, Warwick the Kingmaker, the Princes in the Tower, Henry Tudor. But the whole era also creates a level of bewilderment among even keen readers. John Ashdown-Hill gets right to the heart of this ‘thorny’ subject, ... Read more

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  • The Private Life of Edward IV

    by John Ashdown-Hill ...
    From the moment it became public news, the validity of Edward’s marriage to Elizabeth Widville, the beautiful widow of a Lancastrian knight, was repeatedly called into question. This alarmed Elizabeth Widville and led her into political killings. She was terrified that she would lose her crown and that her children by the king would never succeed to the throne. But after Edward’s death a bishop ... Read more

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