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If such behavior on the part of the Yorkist establishment was shocking, it wasn’t unexpected. It was a twisted manifestation of Edward’s philosophy of ‘family first’, which maintained that power should be concentrated in the hands of the ‘king’s blood’.

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

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Rather than clarifying the diplomatic situation, the new treaties simply added to the haze of mutual suspicion between the three rulers.

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In the absence of concrete information, stories proliferated.

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Not for the first time, Edward’s view of his own irresistible appeal was dented by contact with reality.

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Spread by people who knew perfectly well that, once in circulation, such false news was almost impossible to counter, it was immediately effective.

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When it came to ridding himself of knotty problems, Richard was making a habit of putting necessity first and law a distant second.

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