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Charles Brandon: Henry VIII’s Closest Friend
by Steven Gunn.
Amberley, 304 pp., £20, October 2015,978 1 4456 4184 3 Show More
by Steven Gunn.
Amberley, 304 pp., £20, October 2015,
“... then would have swived the other sister both’. He fought for the invading Tudor forces against Richard III. Unsubstantiated legend has him as a standard-bearer at Bosworth, cut down close to the person of the man who would soon be king. Whatever the exact truth, he died a hero with a claim on the gratitude of the new regime. He did not leave much land for ... ”