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Perkin, "Prince Richard", sailed away first to Ireland, where he was acknowledged by lords who had very ancient allegiances to the house of York, then to Scotland, where he found an ally in James ...
Jan 17, 2011 · I am not alone in accepting that “Perkin Warbeck” was really who he claimed to be. In 1830, the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, reached the same conclusion. She wrote a novel based on his youthful adventures hiding from Henry VII’s spies. The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck ends with Richard landing in England
* The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy 1491-1499 by Ian Arthurson, Stroud 1994 * Richard of England by Diana Kleyn, reprint 2013 . Ann Wroe is an editor with a leading British publication. She is the author of several books including Pontius Pilate, and Perkin: A Story of Deception, Jonathan Cape 2003 (hbk), Vintage 2004 (pbk)
Ann Wroe is the Obituaries editor of The Economist, and has written its weekly obituary for almost two decades.She is the author of eight previous works of non-fiction, including biographies of Pontius Pilate (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award and the W.H. Smith Award), Perkin Warbeck, Shelley, Orpheus (winner of the Criticos Prize) and St Francis.
Dec 2, 2012 · The young man, called by Henry VII’s spin doctors, “Perkin Warbeck”, has been surrounded by controversy ever since he first appeared on the world stage. He claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, the younger son of Edward IV, and thus would have been the brother of Henry’s Queen Elizabeth.
Random House, New York, USA, 2003. ISBN 1-4000-6033-8 (this book was originally published in Britain as Perkin: A Story of Deception) Three books representing three different views of the young man known as Perkin Warbeck: as the titles indicate, Arthurson sees him as an impostor, Kleyn believes he really was Richard of York, whereas Wroe is ...
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Perkin Warbeck's personal history is fraught with many unreliable and varying statements. [3] Warbeck said that he was Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, who had disappeared mysteriously along with his brother Edward V after Richard, Duke of Gloucester, usurped the throne as King Richard III following the elder Edward's death in 1483.
