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    In the Wars of the Roses, any advantage must be cultivated--including magic.

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    Richard York and Anne Warwick are far more alike than either wishes to admit.

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    4/?
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    While walking through the woods Eric comes across Hal defending an elderly man from bandits. He steps in to help the prince without knowing who he actually is and is hurt defending him. From that moment that are linked. Bromance for now.

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    A soliloquy from Richard III, reflecting on his greater and house-specific family legacy.

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    You know what they say when these sorts of cases come up. The French say it best. Cherchez la femme. La femme fatale.

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    The youngest child of Richard of York is a daughter--and the women of York make good use of their marriages.

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    Father used to say the rules were different west of the Mississippi. He wasn't wrong.

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    A whim of Puck's has more consequences than he anticipates.

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    John de Vere learns lessons in kingmaking and treason from the best.

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    In the giddy years of the early twentieth century, the families of York and Lancaster seem to have come to an uneasy truce when Humphrey Lancaster befriends young Richard York and offers him a chance to mend his wrecked fortunes. What neither of them anticipates is the war that will destroy everything they know.

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    Somewhere in the haze of disorientation that came with waking up after way too many shots of tequila, Margaret realised she wasn't in her own bed. More importantly, she wasn't alone.

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    Richard stands halfway up the quay, alone.

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    Sir John Talbot prefers to fight the French. It makes him an unusual Englishman.

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    Jack Cade's wife narrates how an unlikely soldier joined the rebels' party. "I did not think it sensible to turn to one young Richard son of Plantagenet and say, 'Excuse me, what the bleeding fuck are you doing here and have you brought guns to kill us all?'"

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    During a rare time of peace, Henry VI and his retinue are visiting the York family. Margaret and Suffolk decide that a game of Dare might spice up an otherwise dull trip.

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    Edward had requested--he had not begged; her son would never beg, not if she could help it--that she be kind to his bride. And so Margaret would. For his sake. And, perhaps, in memoriam, for a young French princess who had crossed the sea to marry a man she had never met for an alliance she did not understand.

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    Richard was fifteen years old when he realised there were things that money could not buy.

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    In the end, they both had to do it. It was possibly the most excruciating half-hour in the lives of both brothers. And that included Agincourt.

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    'Long die thy happy days before thy death, / And, after many length'ned hours of grief, / Die neither mother, wife, nor England's Queen!' (R3 I.iii.206-8) The curse was not meant for her, but Fortune's wheel cared not for intentions.

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    Henry had only ever wanted to be good. And that was not enough for kings.

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    1
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