Author: John Ashdown-Hill

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The late JOHN ASHDOWN-HILL was a historian and member of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Genealogists and the Richard III Society. He wrote numerous articles for The Ricardian and was the author of Eleanor, the Secret Queen, Richard III’s ‘Beloved Cousyn’ and Royal Marriage Secrets (all The History Press).




15 Ebooks by John Ashdown-Hill

Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: The Third Plantagenet
John Ashdown-Hill: The Third Plantagenet
Less well-known than his brothers, Edward IV and Richard III, little has been written about George, Duke of Clarence, leaving us with a series of unanswered questions: What was he really like? What s …
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Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: The Dublin King
John Ashdown-Hill: The Dublin King
A year after Richard III’s death, a boy claiming to be a Yorkist prince appeared as if from nowhere, claiming to be Richard III’s heir and the rightful King of England. In 1487, in a unique ceremony, …
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€8.49
Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: The Secret Queen
John Ashdown-Hill: The Secret Queen
When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his sons (the ‘Princes in the Tower’). The crown therefore passed to Edward IV's un …
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Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn'
John Ashdown-Hill: Richard III’s ‘Beloved Cousyn’
In 1455 John Howard was an untitled and relatively obscure Suffolk gentleman. Thirty years later, at the time of his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, he was Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk, Lord …
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Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Royal Marriage Secrets
John Ashdown-Hill: Royal Marriage Secrets
With a new royal baby we witness fundamental changes in the succession laws, but then rules governing the royal weddings and the succession to the throne have always been shifting. So what is marriag …
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Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: The Last Days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA
John Ashdown-Hill: The Last Days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA
The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard’s last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Fie …
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Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Last Days of Richard III
John Ashdown-Hill: Last Days of Richard III
What Richard III did in his last five months, what happened to his body, and how his DNA was found in Canada A new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard’s last 150 days explores these events f …
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€23.21
Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Mythology of Richard III
John Ashdown-Hill: Mythology of Richard III
Richard III. The name will conjure an image for any reader: Shakespeare’s hunchback tyrant who killed his own nephews or a long-denigrated, misunderstood king. This one man’s character and actions ha …
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€10.05
Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Wars of the Roses
John Ashdown-Hill: Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses call to mind bloody battles, treachery and deceit, and a cast of characters known to us through fact and fiction: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard III, Warwick the Kingma …
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€10.04
Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Private Life of Edward IV
John Ashdown-Hill: Private Life of Edward IV
From the moment it became public news, the validity of Edward’s marriage to Elizabeth Widville, the beautiful widow of a Lancastrian knight, was repeatedly called into question. This alarmed Elizabet …
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€10.00
Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Mythology of the 'Princes in the Tower'
John Ashdown-Hill: Mythology of the ‘Princes in the Tower’
When did the term ‘Princes in the Tower’ come into usage, who invented it, and to whom did it refer? To the general public the term is synonymous with the supposedly murdered boy King Edward V and hi …
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€11.59
Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Cecily Neville
John Ashdown-Hill: Cecily Neville
Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous Kingmaker, Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-cen …
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€6.41
Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Cecily Neville
John Ashdown-Hill: Cecily Neville
Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous Kingmaker, Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-cen …
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€6.39
Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Elizabeth Widville, Lady Grey
John Ashdown-Hill: Elizabeth Widville, Lady Grey
The author of The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower” separates fact from fiction in this biography of an influential former queen of England.   Wife to Edward IV and mother to t …
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€6.39
Cover of John Ashdown-Hill: Elizabeth Widville, Lady Grey
John Ashdown-Hill: Elizabeth Widville, Lady Grey
The author of The Mythology of the ‘;Princes in the Tower’ separates fact from fiction in this biography of an influential former queen of England. Wife to Edward IV and mother to the Princes in the …
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€6.42