Author: John Ashdown-Hill

When did the term Princes in the Tower come into usage, who invented it, and to whom did it refer? To the general public the term is synonymous wit...

The Wars of the Roses call to mind bloody battles, treachery and deceit, and a cast of characters known to us through fact and fiction: Edward IV, ...

A year after Richard IIIs death, a boy claiming to be a Yorkist prince appeared as if from nowhere, claiming to be Richard IIIs heir and the rightf...

Wife to Edward IV and mother to the Princes in the Tower and later Queen Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Widville was a central figure during the War ...

Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous 'Kingmaker', Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville wa...

Wife to Edward IV and mother to the Princes in the Tower and later Queen Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Widville was a central figure during the War ...

In 1455 John Howard was an untitled and relatively obscure Suffolk gentleman. Thirty years later, at the time of his death at the Battle of Boswort...

From the moment it became public news, the validity of Edwards marriage to Elizabeth Widville, the beautiful widow of a Lancastrian knight, was rep...

From the moment it became public news, the validity of Edwards marriage to Elizabeth Widville, the beautiful widow of a Lancastrian knight, was rep...

Less well-known than his brothers, Edward IV and Richard III, little has been written about George, Duke of Clarence, leaving us with a series of u...

Richard III. The name will conjure an image for any reader: Shakespeares hunchback tyrant who killed his own nephews or a long-denigrated, misunder...

With a new royal baby we witness fundamental changes in the succession laws, but then rules governing the royal weddings and the succession to the ...

Less well-known than his brothers, Edward IV and Richard III, little has been written about George, Duke of Clarence, leaving us with a series of u...

The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richards last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight kno...

When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his sons (the Princes in the Tower)....