Thomas, Lord Stanley, another brother-in-law to the Kingmaker, later fourth husband of : William, Lord Hastings, second cousin of the father of Richard and his siblings, close cousin of the Percy family of Northumberland, a brother-in-law of the Kingmaker. Johnny Neville, Marquis of Montagu and sometime Earl of Northumberland, younger brother of The Kingmaker.įrancis Lovell of Minster Lovell, ward of the Kingmaker, Richard’s greatest friend, married to the Kingmaker’s niece, Anna Fitzhugh.

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker, father of Isobel and Anne, cousin to Richard and his siblings.Īnne (nee Beauchamp), Countess of Warwick, wife to the Kingmaker, mother of Anne and Isobel. Isobel Neville, wife of Clarence and sister of Anne Neville.Įdward, the pathetic future Earl of Warwick son of George and Isobel.Īnne Neville, wife of Edouard, the Lancastrian Prince of Wales, later Richard’s wife and queen.Įdward, Earl of Salisbury, only surviving child of Richard and Anne, who dies aged 11. George, Duke of Clarence, the treacherous middle brother to Edward and Richard.

Richard‘s development is plotted well through his early years and his acquaintance with the others who won his love and loyalty also features strongly and believably and provides compelling evidence for their place in Richard’s firmament – and all played poignant, purposeful and believable cameo roles in the over all tragedy that was his fate:Ĭecily Neville, Dowager Duchess of York his widowed mother.Įdward IV, his charming, amoral, elder brother and mentor.

Their brother Edmund is shown as a much nicer person than Edward and one wonders what would have happened had Edmund survived.ĭid the death of Edmund at such an early formative age affect Edward? Certainly Edmund, much more like Richard and their father, understood Edward and was not blind to his shortcomings, talents and charm. It also shows Edward at 14 as the flawed charmer he was to become and suggests the strong affinity that was to dominate relations between these two brothers from here on. The novel opens when Richard is just four years old, showing even then the steadfast qualities which were to dominate his character throughout his life. Its characters, even the minor ones are all well drawn and very believable. This novel is a very well researched novel that is hard to put down.

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