Dramatis Personae

York family

Richard Plantagenet, duke of York

Cecily Neville, duchess of York, his wife

Edward (Ned), earl of March, later Edward IV, their oldest son

Edmund, earl of Rutland, their son

Margaret (Meg), their daughter

George, duke of Clarence, their son

Richard, duke of Gloucester, their youngest son

Edward of Middleham (Ned), Richard III and Anne’s son

Young Edward, Edward IV’s heir

Young Richard, Edward IV’s younger son

Lancaster family (descended from John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster)

Henry VI, only child of Henry V

Margaret of Anjou, his wife

Edouard of Lancaster, prince of Wales, his only child

Neville Family

Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury, Cecily of York’s brother

Richard, earl of Warwick (“The Kingmaker”), Salisbury’s oldest son

Anne Beauchamp, countess of Warwick, Warwick’s wife

Isabel Neville, later duchess of Clarence, Warwick’s daughter and heir

Anne Neville, later duchess of Gloucester, Warwick’s daughter

The court

Margaret Beaufort, countess of Derby, descended from John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford

Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, Margaret’s son

Thomas Stanley, earl of Derby, Margaret’s third husband

Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham, Richard’s cousin

Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV’s queen

Jacquetta Woodville, duchess of Bedford, Elizabeth’s mother

Anthony Woodville, Elizabeth’s brother

William Hastings, Edward IV’s councilor/chamberlain

John (Jack) Howard, later duke of Norfolk, councilor

Margaret Howard, his wife

Thomas Howard, later earl of Surrey, Howard’s son

Francis, Lord Lovell, Richard’s friend

Sir Robert Percy of Scotton, Richard’s friend

Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Richard’s friend and councilor

William Catesby, lawyer and Richard’s councilor

John Kendall, Richard’s secretary

John Parr, Richard’s squire

Miscellaneous (*fictional character)

*Kate Haute, Richard’s mistress

Katherine, Richard and Kate’s daughter (later countess of Pembroke)

John, Richard and Kate’s son (known as John of Gloucester)

Dickon, Richard and Kate’s son (known as Richard of Eastwell)

Anne of Caux, the York family nursemaid

*Constance LeMaitre, Cecily’s attendant and physician

*Piers Taggett, Richard of York’s falconer

Gresilde Boyvile, Cecily of York’s attendant

*John Lacey, master of the Middleham henchmen

*Geoffrey Bywood, Kate Haute’s brother