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The Princes in the Tower Trade paperback - 1995
by Alison Weir
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- Title The Princes in the Tower
- Author Alison Weir
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 287
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, New York
- Date July 1995
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 181896
- ISBN 9780345391780 / 0345391780
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.98 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Kings and rulers, Princes - Great Britain
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94096737
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the publisher
From the rear cover
In this utterly absorbing and meticulously researched book, English writer Alison Weir, an authority on the history of the British royal family, at last provides a conclusive solution to this age-old puzzle. Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as the dozens of modern accounts, Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder.
In The Princes in the Tower we are witnesses to the tumultuous reign of Edward IV, the princes' powerful, handsome, promiscuous father. We see the unfolding rivalry between the Wydvilles, the common family of Edward's shrewd queen, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, his ambitious brother. Finally we are swept up in the vortex of intrigue that followed Edward's death - the naming of his twelve-year-old son Edward as heir; Richard's swift arrival in London and his lightning strike for power; the imprisonment of the princes in the Tower of London; and the hushed-up murders that secured Richard's claim to the throne as Richard III.
Weir considers in turn each of the prime suspects in the murder: the grasping, conspiratorial Duke of Buckingham; the shadowy Sir James Tyrell, Richard's trusted retainer; the possibility that the boys may have died of natural causes; and of course, Richard III himself, a complex man of charm and intelligence twisted by a ruthless ambition for power.
More than an historical murder mystery, The Princes in the Tower is a richly detailed tapestry of English court life in the late fifteenth century - the bitter rivalries that exploded in the Wars of the Roses; the splendor and corruption of the royal family; the violence and treachery that coexisted with exquisite beauty and refinement. At the very center of that tapestry is the tragic image of two pale, innocent, bewildered boys, an image that has haunted our minds for half a millennium. Powerfully written, persuasively argued, and totally mesmerizing to read, The Princes in the Tower is at once a masterpiece of historical research and a riveting story of conspiracy, murder, and deception.
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- Publishers Weekly, 07/24/1995, Page 0