It is a good many years since I read this excellent book and this is not intended as a review. I do recall that the book argued as forensically as could be expected from a member of the legal profession, that he skewered one Cairo dweller in particular and that, at the apparent behest of his publisher, the endnotes were missing.

Just two days ago, I indulged my curiosity with an e-mail to Mr. Fields and now have the notes, with his permission to publish them:

Click to access endnotes.pdf

They certainly do add further authority to the original book, about one particular facet of Richard’s reign.


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3 responses to ““Royal Blood” by Bertram Fields”

  1. Thank you so much…this is still one of my favourite books and one that I would alway recommend.

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  2. […] may recall that, about two years ago, we published the footnotes to Bertram Fields’ Royal Blood. Now it seems that, on page 152 of […]

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  3. […] will remember him as the author of the excellent ROYAL BLOOD, in which, with a lawyer’s skill, he dissected much of the traditionalist viewpoints, even […]

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