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So far he's made a mistake about Arthur's clothing, which looks accurate for his time. His diction isn't fabulous. And Queen Elizabeth Woodville did NOT make a fatal error in handing over her younger son. Richard III's men surrounded Westminster Abbey where she was in sanctuary, and she really had no choice--and she was handing the boy over to a senior relative, Cardinal Bourchier. She knew not to trust Richard.

Enjoyed until we meet Cameron. Beach read.

Still in the family trees and mini bios, where there are really annoying, careless, and clearly obvious errors. Not a good beginning.

I'm finally getting around to reading this in an edition that I bought years ago which has tiny tiny type (which presumably was much easier for me to read then), and has yellowed some. New copies are expensive. A quandary, esp since I am finding the Pistons losing battles very depressing, if enlightening.

Skipping around. This will take me a while to read, even just the Third Age parts.

We know even less about Thomas, Eleanor's husband: we do know for sure that he was born, was knighted, died, and when he died. That's about it.

So far, in spite of a welter of information about Eleanor's complex family, only abundant speculation about her education, who she might have known. Perhapst her husband Thomas Butler was brought up in her family, and that she might have known him her whole life when she married him. Or maybe not. Had she met Edward when she was five? Maybe. Or maybe not. Nothing solid so far.

Ms. Winspear has never mastered British titles. In this novel a man who is an "Honorable," and thus either the younger son of an earl, or any son of a viscount or a baron. We know the Honorable in question has come into an estate on the death of his father because his older brother, the heir, died in WWI. Therefore this gentleman should no longer be an Honorable--he should be an earl, a viscount, or a baron.

Henry Grey did actually have royal descent (as did almost everyone at his level), but it was considerably farther back than his wife's.

I can't think that throwing the Jews out of the country and murdering a number of them doesn't constitute a pogrom. Ive says the martyring of Protestants was England's only true pogrom.