Contents

	List of Illustrations
	Introduction
1	‘Your Beloved Consort’
2	‘It Suits the King of England to Marry Straight Away’
3	‘Tapettes of Verdoures with Crownes and Rooses’
4	Tombs of Saints and Queens
5	‘Þe Castel of Care’
6	Bucks at Bestwood
7	Crossing the River
8	‘He has now Departed from Amongst the Living’
9	‘A Sorry Spectacle’
10	The Franciscan Priory
11	‘King Richard’s Tombe’
12	‘Here Lies the Body’
13	‘The Honour of a King’
14	Richard III’s Genes part I – the Fifteenth Century and Before
15	Richard III’s Genes part II – the mtDNA Line
16	The Future of Richard III
Appendix 1	Richard III’s Itinerary for 1485
Appendix 2	Calendar for 1485 (March to August)
Appendix 3	Approximate Timetable for Monday 22 August 1485
Appendix 4	John Speede’s Account of the Burial of Richard III
Appendix 5	DNA evidence relating to the putative remains of Margaret of York preserved in Mechelen, Belgium
Appendix 6	Richard III’s Epitaph
	Notes
	List of Abbreviations
	Acknowledgements
	Bibliography