In The Shadow of the Tower... Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, was complicating her marriage by an incestuous love for her uncle, King Richard III. Richmond, however, was destined to wrest the crown from his crookback cousin. But his reign, complicated in turn by his resentment of Elizabeth and her ways, was also haunted by the ghosts of his two young brothers in-law, the “princes in the Tower” . . .
Brenda Clarke charts the course of history from the overthrow of King Richard II in 1399 to Henry V's death in 1422, and describes such characters as Henry IV, the Percys, Henry V's brothers and above all, the King himself.