THIS SON OF YORK

This Son of York

Anne Easter Smith

About the Author

About the Author

Award-winning author Anne Easter Smith’s books “…grab you, sweep you along with the story, and make you fall in love with the characters…” (Historical Novels Review) and Kirkus Reviews called her best-selling debut A ROSE FOR THE CROWN “Remarkably assured…a delightful, confident novel…a strong new voice in the field of historical romance.”

THE KING’S GRACE won the 2009 Romantic Times Best Historical Biography award, and QUEEN BY RIGHT was nominated in the same category in 2011.

Romance Reviews Today gave ROYAL MISTRESS “A perfect 10! Entertaining, informative, and impeccably researched. I highly recommend this wonderful book.”

Anne is a native of England who has resided in US for fifty years. She lives in Newburyport MA with her husband, and when not writing can be found directing or acting in community theater.

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Twitter: @anneastersmith

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Books by Anne Easter Smith

Books about the Wars of the Roses by

Anne Easter Smith:

A Rose for the Crown

Daughter of York

The King’s Grace

Queen by Right

Royal Mistress

Copyright

Bellastoria Press

P.O. Box 60341 Longmeadow, MA 01106

bellastoriapress.com

Copyright © 2019 by Anne Easter Smith

All rights reserved, including the reproduction in whole or in part in any form without the written permission of the publisher, Bellastoria Press, P.O. Box 60341, Longmeadow, MA 01116.

This Son of York is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locations, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Cover Design by Sanford Farrier

Cover Illustration by Frances Quinn

Inside Boar Illustration by Kirsten Moorhead

First Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1-942209-64-5

Dedication

Dedication

For Scott,

whose patience with my passion for Richard enabled this book.

Genealogy Chart

Dramatis Personae

Dramatis Personae

York family

Richard Plantagenet, duke of York

Cecily Neville, duchess of York, his wife

Edward (Ned), earl of March, later Edward IV, their oldest son

Edmund, earl of Rutland, their son

Margaret (Meg), their daughter

George, duke of Clarence, their son

Richard, duke of Gloucester, their youngest son

Edward of Middleham (Ned), Richard III and Anne’s son

Young Edward, Edward IV’s heir

Young Richard, Edward IV’s younger son

Lancaster family (descended from John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster)

Henry VI, only child of Henry V

Margaret of Anjou, his wife

Edouard of Lancaster, prince of Wales, his only child

Neville Family

Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury, Cecily of York’s brother

Richard, earl of Warwick (“The Kingmaker”), Salisbury’s oldest son

Anne Beauchamp, countess of Warwick, Warwick’s wife

Isabel Neville, later duchess of Clarence, Warwick’s daughter and heir

Anne Neville, later duchess of Gloucester, Warwick’s daughter

The court

Margaret Beaufort, countess of Derby, descended from John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford

Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, Margaret’s son