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Richard III is one of the most mysterious figures of English history, and as such is the source of perennial fascination. Comparatively little is known of his early life, his appearance, his interests, for up to 1483 he played second fiddle to his more glorious older brothers, Edward 'this sun of York', and the feckless Clarence. He appears to have been content in this role, for he was foremost a soldier and an administrator, preferring to govern the marches of the North than to caper 'nimbly in a lady's chamber'. But the untimely death of Edward IV forced Richard into the limelight, where he has remained ever since. The last three years of his life have taken on the character of a detective story--did Richard really believe his brother and nephews were illegitimate? Why did he seize the throne? What did happen to the Princes in the Tower? Naturally Henry Tudor ensured that Richard should be held responsible for every possible heinous deed. But later historians have swung violently in the other direction, whitewashing Richard to proffer him as the most ill-used and glorious monarch of the period. Anthony Cheetham has cut through the legend and the propaganda to try to retrace the life of Richard, the forgotten years before he assumed the throne, and thus to place the focus of those final hectic years before the last of the Plantagenets died on Bosworth Field.

A biography of Henry Tudor, whose victory at Bosworth Field, marked the end of the Middle Ages. Born amidst the upheaval of the Wars of the Roses, King Henry spent his formative years in exile. His reign coincided with the High Renaissance of Michelangelo and Leonardo.

A portrait of Edward VII in all his as the young Prince of Wales, bon viveur and leader of a fashionable and scandalous set; as husband to Alexandra and father to six; and as a statesman adapting the monarchy to a new role in the Constitution.

A definitive series on the monarchs who changed English history.

Elizabeth I was England's first really successful female monarch. She defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588, promoted religious tolerance, and united England and Scotland at her death in 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn, and was known as the Virgin Queen and Gloriana. Her reign was known as a Golden Age. She used her sex as a strength not a weakness, and claimed she was married to England.