Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III

by Michael Hicks

Anne Neville was queen to England's most notorious king, Richard III. She was immortalised by Shakespeare for the remarkable nature of her marriage, a union which brought together a sorrowing widow with her husband's murderer. Anne's misfortune did not end there. In addition to killing her first husband, Richard also helped kill her father, father-in-law and brother-in-law, imprisoned her mother, and was suspected of poisoning Anne herself. Dying before the age of thrity, Anne Neville packed into her short life incidents enough for many adventurous careers, but was always, apparently, the passive instrument of others' evil intentions. This fascinating new biography seeks to tell the story of Anne's life in her own right, and uncovers the real wife of Richard III by charting the remarkable twists and turns of her fraught and ultimately tragic life.

• ISBN10: 075246888X
• ISBN13: 9780752468884
• Publish Date: 26 August 2011 (first published 1 January 2006)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: The History Press Ltd
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[elysium]

Since there isn't that much known about Anne, majority of the book is about Wars of the Roses.

You can clearly see that Hicks isn't fan of Richard and certainly doesn't like the idea of the marriage between Richard and Anne. He mentions several times how these days Richard would be registered as sex offender. Because he had sex with Anne when she was minor and because they had such a big age difference. 4 freaking year difference! He also calls him as "serial pedophile" and "serial incestor". He very seriously thins that Richard's marriage to Anne was incestuous, mainly because he married the sister of his sister-in law.