“There are worse fates than to be Queen of England,” one character says to another (unironically), and I could see their point. We get numerous battle scenes in which some of his brothers are killed, and another, Richard, eventually becomes Richard III after Edward’s death.Īs I’ve said with other books about this period, WOW, being royalty or titled during the 15th century was not easy. The beginning and majority of the book covers the reign of Edward York (Edward IV), who was referred to at the time as the “Sunne in Splendour” (this logo was also on his battle flags). Recently I saw her “Sunne in Splendour” being highly praised for its coverage of the Wars of the Roses period in the 1450-1490 period. I remember loving seeing some of the sites mentioned in her books during my trips to England in the 1990s. I wasn’t keeping track of the books I read back then, but I’m guessing they might have been “Falls the Shadows” and “Here Be Dragons.” She is no longer living, but in the late 1900s wrote several voluminous novels about the medieval time period. Years ago, back in the days when I browsed the library stacks to find books to read, I checked out and read a huge tome or two by Sharon Kay Penman.
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