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Making for the king’s throne, empty under its cloth of estate, York laid a hand on it ‘like a man taking possession’ and stated flat leave that he had come to challenge his right”: to claim the crown of England. He was met, not with a ringing acclamation, but with a sea of faces frozen with shock.

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

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