The Prince Who Did Not Become King: Edward of Lancaster, 1453-1471

Edward of Lancaster, son of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou, spent many of his seventeen years as an exile before dying at the battle of Tewkesbury. This is a short nonfiction piece (about 8,000 words) about the life of the young man who died fighting for his family's right to rule England.

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