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Author: Anderton, Richard

Medieval history

Published on 15 September 2025 by Amberley Publishing in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 384 pages, 16 Plates, colour
234 x 156 | 757g

Edmund and Richard de la Pole were the last princes of the House of York to actively seek the English throne their epic thirty year struggle against Henry VII and Henry VIII saw them plunged into a murderous maelstrom of international intrigue. Although the brothers were nephews of Richard III, England’s last Yorkist king, neither had been born to rule and they were forced into rebellion by the relentless scheming of their Tudor rivals.

During their miserable years of exile, both men would be pursued by assassins, beset by spies and betrayed by friends; but when Edmund found himself trapped by the shifting sands of medieval alliances, Richard took on the mantle of White Rose’. Being far more shrewd than his irascible broth