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Adversity seemed to bring out the best in Edward, and his natural instinct for breaking through barriers of social rank to form intense bonds with the men around him. The crisis he faced seemed to absorb those obsessive drives that in quieter, more aimless times found released in his bingeing and womanizing.

— Thomas Penn The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy (2019)

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