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...The novel opens with Edward III’s 16-year-old son Edward of Woodstock, known to history as the Black Prince, embarking in France and earning his spurs at the Battle of Crécy in 1346....
...Is it just my imagination or do I detect a faint grin of belated (about half a millennium belated) satisfaction playing about the long-jawed skull of Richard III?...
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