1452-1485

A savage civil war between two royal families has just concluded, but even as the newly installed King Edward takes the reins of power, his ruthless, physically deformed younger brother Richard sets in motion a scheme to claim the crown for himself.

Presents Shakespeare's historical drama about the machinations of King Richard III in his relentless quest for power.

Membership in the Richard III Society is huge and the interest in Britain's last Plantagenet King is at an all-time high after the discovery of his bones under a parking lot in Leicester, England in 2010. Thanks to Shakespeare, his reputation was dark and he has been accused of the murder of the princes in the tower. This book dispassionately examines the legend as well as the man to uncover his life and possibly alter his reputation. His death at the Battle of Bosworth signaled the end of the War of the Roses and the medieval period in England.

Actually finding the grave of Richard III, the last king of the English Plantagenet dynasty, was a riveting event for the world. And locating a direct descendent, who happened to be a carpenter, was also riveting. Especially because he constructed his kingly ancestor's coffin for the re-burial. The entire story of the excavation, reconstruction of King Richard III's face, and his reburial, completed the most sensational archaeological find for generations.

Elizabeth Woodville, a beautiful and ambitious woman, catches the eye of a newly crowned boy king, secretly marries him, and ascends to royalty while fighting for her family's success.

In 1471 England, two daughters of a silk merchant follow different paths as Jane Shore becomes the king's mistress and Isabel develops London's silk industry, forging alliances that change the political landscape in dangerous ways.

The struggle for the throne continues, with the Yorkists temporarily on top but the Lancastrians planning a counterattack.

As the armies of Lancaster and York clash in the War of the Roses, Dick Shelton attempts to outwit his scheming guardian, Sir Daniel Brackley.