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The meeting of the Three Estates – 25th June 1483

Artist’s impression of the offer of the Kingship to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Baynards Castle by the Three Estates of the Realm.  Mural in the Royal Exchange.  Artist Sigismund Goetz.  I am happy to have a guest post written by Brian Wainwright first published on Murrey&Blue back in 2018.  It’s an eloquent, succinct explanation ofContinue reading “The meeting of the Three Estates – 25th June 1483”

EDWARD V – HIS LIFE PRIOR TO JUNE 1483

‘He had such dignity in his whole person and in his countenance such charm that, however much they might feast their eyes he never sated the gaze of observers’.  Domenico Mancini Edward V from the window at Coldridge Church, Devon.  Despite the late historian Professor Helen Maud Cam opining rather harshly “I just do not understandContinue reading “EDWARD V – HIS LIFE PRIOR TO JUNE 1483”