Cecily Neville, Duchess of York

As part of their desperate propaganda campaign, Edward's supporters wanted to deflect attention away from Roar.

So they named an alternative time and place for his conception, the respectable family residence at Hatfield Chase in Yorkshire, before Cecily Neville even left for France.

But when we actually look at the itinerary of Cecily and Richard, we find they've traveled south by the beginning of June, 1441.

So this conception would have had to have taken place in May, 1441.

But what do you think it was that protected him? I know it was his brother, and that obviously there's an element to that, and I've just finished, um, [lip smacks] Annie Garthwaite's book.

I've read Cecily a while ago, but in, in the King- These are fantastic, by the way.

I've got my review on these coming up really soon, but these are brilliant.

And she creates, like, her versions, obviously, of the people in this, this story, and she has George as this desperately petulant, childlike figure, which to me is just, just, uh, all, all the way she structures all the people in these novels I think is fantastic.

And nobody on either, whichever road you are, I don't feel anybody has any complaint, can have any complaints about what she's done in these novels.

But yeah, he's this wonderfully spoiled, petulant child, and I think the thing that saves George a lot here is his mother.

So Cecily's very sort of, you know, she's got these sons.

She's a powerful, very intelligent woman.

The manner in which the principles of pride, ambition, and desperate love of power, which were instilled into his mind in his earliest years, brought forth in the end their legitimate fruits, is clearly seen by the following narrative.

chapter one richard's mother the mother of king richard the third was a beautiful and in many respects a noble-minded woman though she lived in very rude turbulent and trying times she was born so to speak into one of the most widely extended the most bitter and the most fatal of the family quarrels which have darkened the annals of the great in the whole history of mankind namely that long-protracted and bitter contest which was waged for so many years between the two great branches of the family of edward the third the houses of york and lancaster for the possession of the kingdom of england this dreadful quarrel lasted for more than a hundred years it led to wars and commotions to the sacking and burning of towns to the ravaging of fruitful countries and to atrocious deeds of violence of every sort almost without number the internal peace of hundreds of thousands of families all over the land was destroyed by it for many generations husbands were alienated from wives and parents from children by it murders and assassinations innumerable grew out of it and what was it all about you will ask it arose from the fact that the descendants of a certain king had married and intermarried among each other in such a complicated manner that for several generations nobody could tell which of two different lines of candidates was fairly entitled to the throne The question was settled at last by a prince who inherited the claim on one side, marrying a princess who was the heir on the other.

Thus the conflicting interests of the two houses were combined, and the quarrel was ended.

But while the question was pending, it kept the country in a state of perpetual commotion, with feuds and quarrels and combats innumerable, and all the other countless and indescribable horrors of civil war.

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To assist her in the early education of her children, Richard's mother appointed one of the ladies of the court their governess.

This governess was a personage of very high rank, being descended from the royal line.

Um, so I think probably he's planning to be buried at St George's Chapel.

If he remarries and has another child, and the, and his second wife becomes the mother of the, the heir to the throne, then he's gonna be buried with her.

That's just the political requirement really.

Perhaps if he didn't marry again or didn't have another child, he might have had Anne moved to be buried with him when something happened to him.

[laughs]

Yeah, exactly.

Um, and also a mother who is willing to entertain for a week a man that history has said murdered her grandsons and stole the crown and was, you know, a terrible, horrible man, murdered his wife, wanted to, you know, wanted to marry his niece, who is another one of Cecily's grandchildren.

Yeah.