Richard III (15 page)

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Middleham Castle, where Richard spent part of his youth. It later became one of his favourite residences
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King Henry VI, whose murder was committed or at least supervised personally by Richard. From a stained-glass window at King’s College, Cambridge
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Edward IV. A sixteenth-century copy of a lost portrait. Society of Antiquaries, London
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Flemish fifteenth-century portrait of Richard’s sister, Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. Her noticeably sharp features may well have resembled her brother’s. Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Richard’s sister-in-law and enemy, Queen Elizabeth Woodville. Queens’ College, Cambridge
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6.
James III, King of Scots, with the future James IV, by Hugo van der Goes. (The boy was formerly believed to be James III’s brother Alexander, Duke of Albany.) On loan to the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
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7.
Ely Place, the London palace of Bishop Morton, where Richard (according to Thomas More) ‘saw good strawberries’ just before his second
coup
in June 1483. From a model by Jo Pradera
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8.
Edward V. From a sixteenth-century panel in St George’s Chapel, Windsor
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9.
Richard’s badge of the White Boar. Carved detail from a pulpit presented by Edward IV to the collegiate church of Fotheringay, the burial place of their parents
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10.
Brass of the sinister William Catesby, one of Richard’s principal adviser who was executed after Bosworth. Church of St Leodegorius, Ashby St Ledgers
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One of Richard’s most formidable opponents, Margaret Beaufort, Henry Tudor’s mother. From a portrait by Maynard Waynwyk of before 1523. Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
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12.
Richard’s prayer book. Illuminated
c.
1440 for a member of his wife’s family, it eventually passed into the hands of his enemy Margaret Beaufort. Lambeth Palace Library, London
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13.
Ralph Fitzherbert (d. 1483). Around his neck he wears the Yorkist livery collar of suns and roses with Richard’s bour budge as a pendant – the only such example to survive. Norbury, Derbyshire
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