STRUGGLE for SUPREMACY
The first 28 years of the Wars of the Roses between the rival royal Houses of Lancaster and York had been eventful, with Lancastrian King Henry VI deposed and murdered, and factional plots aplenty. Following Yorkist King Edward IV’s sudden death in 1483, the final two years or so of conflict provided history’s most poignant mystery, one of its most controversial kings, a dramatic battle and the accession to the English throne of its most famous royal dynasty.
Richard’s reign was dogged by unanswered questions surrounding the fate of the two princes
On 9 April
