Richard III: England's Most Controversial King
Written by Chris Skidmore
Narrated by Steven Crossley
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Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked murderer, the discovery in 2012 of his skeleton in a Leicester parking lot re-ignited debate over the true character of England's most controversial king.
Richard was born into an age of brutality, when civil war gripped the land and the Yorkist dynasty clung to the crown with their fingertips. Was he really a power-crazed monster who killed his nephews, or the victim of the first political smear campaign conducted by the Tudors?
In the first full biography of Richard III for fifty years, Chris Skidmore draws on new manuscript evidence to reassess Richard's life and times. Richard III examines in intense detail Richard's inner nature and his complex relations with those around him to unravel the mystery of the last English monarch to die on the battlefield.
Chris Skidmore
Rt Hon. Chris Skidmore OBE MP was appointed chair of the UK’s independent review of net zero in September 2022 and published Mission Zero in January 2023. He was the UK’s Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (attending Cabinet) when he signed the UK’s net zero commitment into law in June 2019 – making the UK the first G7 country to do so. He also secured the UK’s presidency of the UN COP26 conference in Glasgow. Previously, he has served in five government departments, including twice as Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation between 2018 and 2020. He is a senior fellow (2021–23) at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and a professor of practice, focusing on net zero policy, at the University of Bath.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I knew nothing about English royalty, now I know a little. Written for the reader familiar with English geography and royal titles but vexing to the colonial. Worthwhile, nonetheless.