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Two murdered princes; a powerful queen betrayed; a nobleman riding towards his certain death...The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating -- and most brutal -- murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years.
In a brilliant feat of historical daring, Emma Darwin has recreated the terrible, exhilarating world of the two youngest victims of the War of the Roses; the power struggles that lay behind their birth, the danger into which they fell, the profoundly moving days before their imprisonment, and the ultimate betrayal of their innocence.
In A Secret Alchemy three voices speak: that of Elizabeth Woodville, the beautiful widow of King Edward IV; her brother Anthony, surrogate father to the doomed Prince Edward and his brother; and present-day historian Una Pryor. Herself brought up amid family secrets, Una's experience of tragedy and lost love help her unlock the story of the princes' deaths.
ISBN:9780755330669
