How Edward IV proved his worthiness as king. So many questions: what is an “exemplary beheading“? How did they get to the beheading stage if the unfortunate grocer wasn't tried for anything? Was Walter Walker just grabbed off the streets or did he make the wrong person mad or what? Isn't executing someone when you weren't sure he'd been tried for anything the opposite of how a king should behave?
The author just referred to the fifteenth-century Duke of Clarence as a “simmering stew of self-entitlement and personal inadequacy“ and I have to make a note of this because I feel like it will come in handy when discussing modern American politics.
Excited to get this one on #99ponkindle offer today 😁
pickNot for the faint hearted, this book about Edward IV & his brothers is a weighty tome at over 600 pages packed with historical detail. The death of a Burgundian horse was difficult to read about & it made me dislike Anthony Woodville.
An informative read about this period of English history. 4🌟
Thanks to NetGalley & publishers, Penguin Books UK / Allen Lane, for the opportunity to read an ARC. #NetGalley
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