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  1. Lady Catherine Gordon. Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower". Richard, were he alive, would have been the rightful claimant to the throne, assuming that his elder ...

  2. Act 2, Scene 1. The countess of Crawford, Katherine and Jane talk of the coming arrival of Warbeck and his followers to the Scottish court when King James IV and his nobles enter to receive the man who claims to be Richard, Duke of York. Warbeck and his followers enter with great pomp and ceremony, and the pretender describes his travels and ...

  3. Sep 21, 2013 · The Plot. The White Princess follows the earlier years of Elizabeth of York’s reign as Queen, taking off from where The Kingmaker’s Daughter and The Red Queen left us; with the defeat of Richard III at Bosworth and Henry VII’s imminent accession. Specifically the novel traces Henry’s considerable instability as a new-come king, the ...

  4. Summary. 1. Elizabeth is summoned to court by Henry VII. 2. Elizabeth learns of the rumors surrounding her brothers' fate. 3. Elizabeth gives birth to her first child, Arthur. 4. Elizabeth's mother, Elizabeth Woodville, plots against Henry VII.

  5. Aug 17, 2013 · The most successful; Perkin Warbeck, not only managed to convince a number of foreign monarchs of his supposed identity, but Henry VII’s agents were unable to disprove his claims. While, again, we cannot know the truth of this one way or the other, were the princes’ remains tested, it would be both fascinating and controversial if only one of the skeletons could be identified as a relative ...

  6. Charged as traitors, Warbeck and Teddy are executed. Plot and story summary for The White Princess by Philippa Gregory. Richard III has been killed in the Battle of Bosworth, and his devastated niece and lover Elizabeth of York must marry Richard's conqueror Henry Tudor, the new king of England, to finally end the longrunning Wars of the Roses ...

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  8. The Truth behind the Fiction. Published 18th November 2017. There has never been more interest in the Wars of the Roses, particularly the experience of the women – the wives, daughters, cousins and sisters of the rival claimants from Lancaster and York, who were often torn in their loyalties between their families of origin, and their marital ...

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