Here we read of a king who devoted much of his reign to revenge of the same young monarch riding out boldly to face the peasants demanding a fairer deal of the winning of Fair Kate of France by the spectacular warrior king, Henry V of the emergence of a commoner known in history as the Kingmaker of a ruler who condemned his brother to death and the carrying out of the sentence, according to public report at the time, by drowning the prince in a butt of wine. It is not claiming too much to say that here the veil has been raised and that throughout the book a bright light plays on this century of excitement and romance and stories stranger than fiction. The Wars of the Roses were fought a few men began to preach and a nation began to listen to new beliefs the stout men of the soil rose against feudal injustices and the greatest of mysteries grew out of the deaths of two princes in the Tower of London. And yet these were eventful years, filled with important, strange, colorful and sometimes mystifying events. During this time the Chronicles were silent and the sources of information few. There are periods in history when things are seen dimly as through a veil.
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