Richard II: Author of his own Downfall?
Nigel Saul explores the deposition of Richard II, arguing that the king’s malice and misrule forced Henry Bolingbroke to destroy him.
Six hundred years ago this month King Richard II, the last in the direct line of the Plantagenets, was deposed.
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