dental evidence
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Coming Upon the King: My Accidental Path Toward Becoming a Ricardian
“Eleanor”, “Princes”, Alaska, Anglo-Saxons, Anne Mowbray, Castillon, denialists, dental evidence, dishonesty, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Garden Tower, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Josephine Josepha Wilkinson, King Lear, Leicester dig, Magna Carta, mtDNA evidence, Nevilles, Richard III, Richard III Society, Shakespeare, Stuarts, Tanner and Wright, Weir, Westminster AbbeyI’ll be perfectly honest with you: I was never really that interested in Richard Plantagenet, later Richard III. In school I had avoided the Anglo-Saxons like the plague, and Richard, well, perhaps like a round of the flu. He wasn’t quite as intimidating, despite the double-murder allegation lodged, and I got away with not having…
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… Edward IV is either Mr. Rochester or Captain Mainwaring, which other fictional character may be based on one of his contemporaries? John, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, posthumously Edward’s father-in-law, who was identified after the battle of Castillon by the gap between his teeth might be Terry-Thomas? Domenico Mancini, a foreign visitor who barely understood…
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The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower”
“Tudor” propaganda, Bethnal Green, books, Charles II, dental evidence, Edward V, Elizabeth Roberts, Garden Tower, Glenn Moran, Henry Pole the Younger, identification, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, Joy Ibsen, Leicester dig, mtDNA evidence, pre-contract, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower”, The Private Life of Edward IV, Three Estates, Westminster AbbeyThis is less a book and more of an outdoor swimming pool, becoming deeper as the chapters progress. In the shallow end, the subjects go from the definition of a “prince” and the circumstances under which Edward IV’s elder sons came to live there, centuries before Buckingham Palace was built to the origin of the…
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Here is what little Lady Anne Mowbray may have looked like. She was the child bride of one of the so-called Princes in the Tower, the younger one, Richard, Duke of York. Her burial was recently extensively covered by sparkypus here. Now The Times has come up with an article about the reconstruction of this…
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Eleanor again
attainder, bigamy, book review, Chapuys, cover-up, denialists, dental evidence, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, evidence, George Buck, George Duke of Clarence, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, Lancastrians, Norwich, paperbacks, pre-contract, Richard III, Robert Stillington, Thomas More, Titulus Regius, William CatesbyJohn Ashdown-Hill’s Eleanor, the Secret Queen was first published in 2009, detailing Lady Eleanor Talbot’s family and early life, the circumstances in which she married Edward IV, her similarities to his mistress Elizabeth Woodville (they were dark haired, older and widows of Lancastrian-inclined men), canon law and how it affected Edward’s relationships and children together…
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