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Title: Lives of the bachelor kings of England
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Strickland, Agnes, 1796-1874 Strickland, Elisabeth, 1794-1875
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Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e numerous Tower visitors, far f All the beautiful Norman chapel more interesting to them than the and alcove chamber floor, are most Hotel de Cluny at Paris is to the provokingly encumbered with high French. For the Tower of London, deal frames full of papers. When both as palace and prison, has witnes- they are removed to her majestys sed either the beginning or ending new Record Office, the royal suite of of most of the tragedies occurring apartments ought to be restored to in our national annals. 190 EDWARD THE FIFTH. to his uncle Gloucester, over his mother. Not that theuncles of his predecessors enjoyed their high privilegesvery peacefully. Edward III., Richard II., and HenryVI. had each an uncle murdered, the results either ofthe factions in their minorities or those which arosefrom them. Even the most prosperous of the minorsovereigns might have envied the happier fate of EdwardV., who, with the young babe, his brother/ was earlyput to rest under the shadow of the White Tower.
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Wakefield Tower and Portcullis Gateway.—See page 170. EDWARD THE SIXTH.

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