I had no idea how dramatically that decision would transform my life, setting me upon a twelve-year odyssey that would eventually lead to the publication of The Sunne in Splendour. Realizing I needed another outlet for my outrage, I decided to write a novel about Richard. They’d mumble “Richard who?”, then their eyes would glaze over and they’d find excuses to disappear. I soon realized that they did not share my indignation about the wrongs done to this long-dead medieval king.

Angered by this blatant distortion of history, I began telling my friends how unfairly Richard had been maligned. Filled with the sights and sounds of battle, the customs and love of daily life, the rigours and dangers of Court politics and the touching concerns of very real men and women, The Sunne in Splendour is a richly coloured tapestry of medieval England.I was a college student when I happened upon the story of Richard III, and the more I learned, the more convinced I became that he’d been the victim of a great injustice, transformed by the Tudors into a soulless monster in order to justify Henry Tudor’s dubious claim to the throne. Thus was born the myth of King Richard III, the man who would stop at nothing to gain the throne. Leaving no heir, his reputation was at the mercy of his successor, and Henry Tudor had too much at stake to risk mercy.

The very codes Richard lived by ultimately betrayed him. Above all, he was a man of fierce loyalties, great courage and firm principles, who was ill at ease among the intrigues of Edward's court.

He was also a devoted brother, an ardent suitor, a patron of the arts, an indulgent father. But Richard was far more than a warrior schooled in combat. Richard, last-born son of the Duke of York, was seven months short of his nineteenth birthday when he bloodied himself at the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury, earning his legendary reputation as a battle commander in the Wars of the Roses, and ending the Lancastrian line of succession. This special thirtieth anniversary edition of the bestselling The Sunne in Splendour, features an author's note from Sharon Penman. The classic, magnificent bestselling novel about Richard III, now in a special thirtieth anniversary edition Num Pages: 1248 pages, illustrations. Description for THE SUNNE IN SPLENDOUR B Paperback.

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