Author: Wroe, Ann
Title: The perfect Prince. The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and his quest for the Throne of England.
Description: New York, Random House, 2003. hardcover with dustjacket, XI, 610 pp.. (the fascinating story of Perkin Warbeck, a Flemish youth who usurped in 1491 the identity of late Richard Duke of York, who together with his brother the young King Edward V had been murdered as a boy in the Tower in the year 1483 by a rival branch of the royal house of England; his subsequent trials to replace King Henry VII and his role in European politics as a suitable pretender to the English Crown as counterweight to King Henry VII or as a pawn to blackmail) ISBN: 1400060338

Keywords: history, England, Great-Britain, monarchy, House of York, Richard Duke of York, 15th century, pretenders, 1400060338


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