The Last Yorkists: Edmund and Richard de la Pole

Edmund and Richard de la Pole were the last princes of the House of York to actively seek the English throne – their epic thirty-year struggle against Henry VII and Henry VIII saw them plunged into a murderous maelstrom of international intrigue. Although the brothers were nephews of Richard III, England’s last Yorkist king, neither had been born to rule and they were forced into rebellion by the relentless scheming of their Tudor rivals. During their miserable years of exile, both men woul...