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Contents

Cover

About the Author

Also by Alison Weir

Illustrations

Dedication

Title Page

Epigraph

Introduction

1 The Riches of England

Part I: The Origins of the Conflict

2 A Race of Magnates

3 The Usurping Dynasty

4 The Flower of Christian Chivalry

5 The Child King

6 A Simple and Upright Man

7 ‘A Queen Not Worth Ten Marks’

8 The Daisy Flower

9 Murder at Sea

10 John Amend-All

11 ‘A Great Division between York and Lancaster’

12 ‘A Sudden and Thoughtless Fright’

Part II: The Wars of the Roses

13 The Wars of the Roses

14 An Uneasy Peace

15 ‘A Great and Strong Labour’d Woman’

16 The Paper Crown

17 The Sun in Splendour

18 The Bloody Meadow

19 ‘A Person Well Worthy To Be King’

20 Fugitives

21 ‘Now Take Heed What Love May Do’

22 Secret Negotiations

23 The Queen and M. De Warwick

24 The Readeption of Henry VI

25 ‘The Perfect Victory’

26 To Tewkesbury and the Tower

Simplified Genealogical Tables

Picture Section

Footnotes

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

About the Author

Alison Weir was born in London and now resides in Surrey. Before becoming a published author in 1989, she was a civil servant, then a housewife and mother. From 1991 to 1997, whilst researching and writing books, she ran a school for children with learning difficulties before taking up writing full-time. Her non-fiction books include The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Lancaster and York, Children of England, Elizabeth the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mary Queen of Scots, Henry VIII: King and Court, Isabella and, most recently, The Lady in the Tower.

She is also the author of three best-selling novels, Innocent Traitor, The Lady Elizabeth and The Captive Queen.

Also by Alison Weir

Non-fiction

Britain’s Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

The Princes in the Tower

Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses

Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547 – 1558

Elizabeth the Queen

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Henry VIII: King and Court

Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley

Isabella: She Wolf of France, Queen of England

Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess

The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn

Fiction

Innocent Traitor

The Lady Elizabeth

The Captive Queen

Illustrations

PLATES

1 Richard II, portrait by an unknown artist in Westminster Abbey c. 1395 (by courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster)

2 John of Gaunt, late sixteenth-century portrait attributed to Luca Cornelli (by kind permission of the Duke of Beaufort; photograph by Peter A. Harding)