The Devil in Ermine

The Wars of the Roses, England, April 1483. Two ambitious dukes, Gloucester and Buckingham, face the enmity of the 'white queen', Elizabeth Woodville. They need to seize power before she destroys them. But how far is Harry, the twenty-eight-year old Duke of Buckingham prepared to go? Will playing powerbroker be sufficient? Or should he become a kingmaker and crown Gloucester as King Richard III? Here is Harry's account of the political intrigues that blazed through Westminster in the summer of 1483.