Painting of Henry II

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A portrait of Richard III. Was the last Yorkist king a usurper? Historian John Ashdown-Hill explains why this is a myth. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Did fear drive Richard III to the throne?

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A portrait of Elizabeth Woodville, queen of Edward IV. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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In 1937, Amelia Earhart, one of the world’s most famous aviators, apparently disappeared without a trace during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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King Edward IV, who used the surname Plantagenet. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Oil on canvas of the Princes in the Tower

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An enigma at the heart of British history: who killed the Princes in the Tower, Edward V and Richard Duke of York?

As a child king, Henry VI – shown in a c16th-century portrait – learned the lessons of kingship from books. Unfortunately, those books didn't extol the merits of ruthlessness and practising realpolitik. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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How Henry VI's love of peace cost him the throne – and his life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"As for the accusation that he killed the princes in the Tower, I think he was framed," says Robert Lindsay of Richard III, shown in a 16th-century portrait. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Historian Nick Barratt.

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A vintage colour lithograph depicting King Richard III at the battle of Bosworth. The battle of Bosworth (or Bosworth Field) was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The ‘Princes in the Tower’: Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, disappeared in mysterious circumstances following the death of their father, King Edward IV. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Historian John Ashdown-Hill

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Richard III historian John Ashdown-Hill dies

Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV

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The ‘Princes in the Tower’

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Portrait of Henry V of England

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Richard III's skull. (Image by Catriona Gray)

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What has the discovery of Richard III's remains taught us?

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Five places Richard III may have wanted to be buried (and none of them are Leicester)

The tombs of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey, France. (Dreamstime)

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The bronze effigy on the tomb of Edward Plantagenet, known as the Black Prince, in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, Kent. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

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A 19th-century illustration depicting the battle of Agincourt.

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Top 10 Plantagenet podcasts – from the Black Death to Richard III

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

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The discovery of Richard III's remains

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Laurence Olivier plays Richard III in the 1955 film adaptation of Shakespeare's play. In it, the controversial monarch is damned as everything from a "bottled spider" and "lump of foul deformity" to a "poisonous bunch-backed toad". (Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A scene from the Chronique de St Denis depicting the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France, 1137. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The medieval castle in the English county of Kent

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