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Richard III (Penguin Monarchs)

by Rosemary Horrox

Book 38 in the Penguin Monarchs series.

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Rosemary Horrox presents Richard III as a skilled nobleman whose two-year reign ended the Yorkist dynasty. The biography follows his service to Edward IV, seizure of the throne after Edward’s death and the unresolved fate of the Princes in the Tower.

Richard inspired both loyalty and intense hostility, but failed to secure broad acceptance or a stable succession. Horrox examines rebellion, propaganda and the invasion of Henry Tudor, explaining how defeat at Bosworth transformed a contested king into one of history’s most enduring political villains.

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