![]() ![]() Poor Anne Neville doesn’t even get this much from any of the adults in her life. “Well, honey, Upper Class Twit A has 5/8’s a cup of royal blood and Upper Class Twit B has 4/7’s a cup of royal blood, and their wives have been egging them on a bit, so loads and loads of lower class men are going to kill each other and wrack havoc on the physical and economic landscape, just so someone can wear a shiny crown.” Imagine trying to explain succession wars to a child: The White Queen of Middleham is the first book in the Sprigs of Broom series, following the lives of Yorkist Plantagenet off-spring including "The Princes in the Tower" and Perkin Warbeck. Their love, almost wrecked by theįeud of York and Lancaster, culminates in great happiness and the last Plantagenet reign in England. The third son of the ambitious Duke of York, later King Richard III, is a hero in the eyes of the shy and bewildered Anne, and the key to her understanding of the great events happening around her. For Anne Neville, a timid and delicate child, ignored by her mother, patronised by her elder sister and bullied by her formidable father Warwick the Kingmaker, her childhood friend Richard Plantagenet becomes a source of strength throughout her life.Īs she moves abruptly from castle to castle, from England to France, with Warwick’s changing fortunes in the turbulent Wars of the Roses, Anne is a pawn in the dangerous games of political intrigue that she struggles to understand. ![]()
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