The Sunne in Splendour

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Those who know Richard III from Shakespeare will find that Sharon Kay Penman presents a contrasting view of the English monarch . . . He's an altogether nice man, a romantic hero as suitable to our late twentieth-century standards . . . as he was to those of medieval England . . . There is a vengeful quality to her insistence that is appealing; it makes for a good story." -- The New York Times Book Review

When Edward visits Richard in his northern holdings, he recognizes how popular his younger brother has become and admits he doesn't like it.Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Averted, much to certain characters' disgust. Foul rumours and Historical Villain Upgrades concerning the recently deceased are very commonplace. for ancslove Fandoms: 15th Century CE RPF, Historical RPF, The Sunne in Splendour - Sharon Kay Penman, The White Queen (TV) Artistic Licence – History: As a work of Ricardian fiction, the book treats Edward's betrothal contract with Eleanor Butler as legitimate. In reality, with the exception of the Richardian faction, most royalist historians are rather dubious of its authenticity since the only source for this claim is Parliment's decree de-legitimizing Edward's marriage and there's zero evidence for it anywhere else, making it come off as a convenient excuse so Richard to grab the throne. Death by Childbirth: happened to Nell Percy, wife of Rob Percy and later possibly Isabel. Richard was afraid that it'd happen to Anne too after the difficult birth of their son Ned.

Tangled Family Tree: The connections between the Yorks and Nevilles and their Lancastrian cousins are dizzyingly complicated, and another name for The War of the Roses was The Cousins War.

The reader is left with the haunting sensation that perhaps the good a man does can live after him---especially in the hands of a dedicated historian. The San Diego Union a White swan (from the Bohun swan, from the de Bohun family of Mary de Bohun; Henry IV's first wife) the thrones of Queen Victoria and King William are lost to the wastelands. The House of Kingsbridge is no more, and in its place, factions plot and squabble to rule the destroyed land once called England. While dropping in on Will, Edward IV comes upon Jane Shore in the bathtub, which leads to a Naked First Impression.