And he returned her love with an all-consuming passion that was to last a lifetime, enduring forced separation, a brutal marriage, and murderous loss. Only one thing did Edward deny his favorite brother: the right to wed the woman he adored.Īnne Neville had fallen in love with Richard when they were both mere children. And he was rewarded with honors and lands, with titles and royal commissions, with, above all, affection and trust. Despairing of his brother’s follies, Richard nonetheless served him faithfully: through battle and exile, in war and in peace, despite the scandal of Edward’s Court and the malice of his Queen. Headstrong, charming, and regally handsome, Edward was as famous for his sensual appetites as for his unfailing preference for the expedient over the correct. At nineteen and against all odds, Edward defeated the Lancastrian forces and claimed the throne for York. And his undoing.Ĭaught in that vicious power struggle history has called The Wars of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his resplendent brother Edward.
Yet through it all, Richard remained firm in his abiding devotion to those he loved. His times were torn by shifting alliances that made treachery and danger a part of life. Born into an England awash with intrigue and war, Richard was eight when his father was ambushed and slain, eighteen when he first blooded himself in combat. The Sunne in Splendour reverberates with the sound of truth as it re-creates the life of this most complex and compelling man. He is perhaps the most controversial monarch ever to rule that island nation. He would become the last Plantagenet king of England.
He was the last born son of the Duke of York.
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