If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

I had watched Richard III meet a bloody end at Bosworth, come face to face with a plague victim, stood in the shadow of a mighty trebuchet, and been put on trial for my life. And it was barely lunchti

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