This was a recent library book sale purchase. I didn't care for Hicks's style. I found myself often rereading a sentence or two because I needed clarification.
Most information I had about Anne Neville was based on The White Queen--especially the TV series. This history helped, but didn't fill in many details because Anne's life was poorly documented. Hicks did a good job explaining the various obstacles in canon law regarding Anne's marriage to Richard III. He concludes that they were never actually legally married.
I have a major issue with the book. In discussing court gossip that Richard planned to divorce Anne, Hicks refers to "the comfortable single life after marriage of Katherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves". Katherine experienced nothing close to a comfortable single life. I was appalled at this mistake, and it made me a bit distrustful of Hicks's gifts as a historian.
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